sorry you're living in a liberal bubble where you don't even realize the statistics neoliberal shits like Stephen Pinker rely on to peddle the image of capitalism improving global poverty draws almost all gains against said poverty from China
Weird how China's responsible for all that and not, say, India, or the recovery of post- Soviet Russia, it's almost like, gosh, having a communist party running things results in constant improvements for working people, who'd have thunk it. Quick, what's the rate of homeownership in China vs the west?? Man, love to be renting until i die, thanks capitalism. It's worth it for all this free fucking speech
Enjoy your declining standard of living and life expectancy if you live anywhere in the west!
P.s. and soviet Russia took the country from a dirt farming tsarist shithole to a space power in the span of a few decades despite three absolutely devastating wars (WW1, 2, and the civil war) and despite being far behind the rest of Europe's industry at their start.
It used to be you liberals would cry about how all that was built on the back of gulag slaves or whatever (despite America having the largest prison population both in absolute numbers and per capita, by far, with legalized slavery via the 13th amendment (and more widespread quasi slavery with prisoners paid pennies) and how America is the bastion of free speech. Well, guess what! None of that free speech has done a bit of good, at least not since the democrats entirely sold out to corporate interests. We speak, they listen, the american empire continues to plod along burning working people to death.
So yeah I guess I'm a tankie because if I'm going to live in a shithole without free speech I'll take the one that actually improves my life. Hey, it's almost like that's why the CPC is actually incredibly popular in China, hmmm! (P.s. China's not a shithole though)