I liked this part:

It set the theme which was to endure for more than a hundred years: that the familiar world is not worth fighting for. Only the unseen tomorrow gives life any meaning. The present could never be ended too soon. The odious aspects of life in the early 20th century were clear enough, and nowhere better portrayed than George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier. Who can forget his portrayals of coal workers and their daily lives? From its earliest inception, the Left cried that the world was not good enough. It held that any attempts to find happiness in the present were not only doomed, but immoral. Religion, Marx said, "is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." He claimed that capitalism could never feed the poor. Lenin said Marxism could, and defined Communism as "socialism plus electricity".

What they forgot to add was that the world would never be good enough. That not a single Marxist state ever managed to provide either the food or electricity in adequate quantities remained beside the point. Shortages were always in the present and the present was unimportant anyway. When capitalism provided wealth in quantities that Lenin could only dream of, then food and electricity themselves became hated in turn, the way starvation once was. The Left, as typified by McSpotlight.Org, now accuses capitalism of creating obesity.

Let's see, capitalism is producing food in such abundance that obesity is becoming a major health issue. By contrast, we had the forced starvation in the Ukraine that resulted in perhaps 2 million deaths, the massive famine in China in the 1950s that may have killed 40 million people, and no doubt several other examples that aren't coming to mind. It's true that obesity is a serious health issue, but I'd say that millions of people starving to death is more serious.