I think that China has a head start on creating the society that the left wing libs are aiming for, well fed and well cared for happy masses who are oblivious of the large elite class living in a different world.

well, my understanding is that there is MASSIVE poverty and social dislocation in China - and how would the rest of the world ever know? It's a HUGE country with extreme limits on news and information.

As you know many people got gipped by supporting Monster-Mao and his Great Crap Forward - not to mention the Great Murderous Cultural Revolution .. seems like it's only right to regard ultraleftist Western ideas of China with great suspicion