Of course the Chinese middle class is not as wealthy or large (proportionally) as our middle class - but simply being able to eat more than just rice is a huge improvement.

But not nearly as huge an improvement as all workers would have if all across the globe on an equal basis (as opposed to comparatively from one land mass to another) if price tags were taken off of necessities that we can produce an abundance of for everyone.

Consider that poultry production in China has increased 900% over the past 30 years - that represents more than a small improvement in people's lives as a result of the de facto adoption of capitalism.

But most of the product of that production does not go into the hands of the vast majority, but is owned and controlled by a tiny few who will not distribute it without making a sizable profit for themselves alone. I know the capitalist-supporting mindset is only concerned what production can do for the few, but the pro-everyone, internationalist mindset of the Marxian socialist puts the welfare of all human beings anywhere in the globe into consideration.

You have no idea how poor most of the world is, and how much poorer it was just 20 or 30 years ago.

If I had no idea of that I would surely be supporting the same system as you do. But I am aware, and as noted above, I do not mistake the wealth of what capitalists consider "the nation" with the amount of that wealth that is actually distributed to the majority.

What you dismiss as meaningless has been an enormous improvement for the people who live there, and 20 years of capitalism did far more than 40 years of communism in improving their living conditions.

Your intellectual dishonesty in continuously claiming or implying the system I support is the Leninist system of state capitalism renders every sentence it appears in irrelevant to this discussion, and also continuously shows the measures you have to resort to in order to make capitalism look good.

That is simply fact, whether you acknowledge it or not.

What I acknowledge as fact, and refuse to overlook, is the disparity between what capitalist production produces, and how much of it ends up in the hands of the majority as opposed to the few who actually own and benefit from the system. That may not mean a lot to those who support the wealthy and powerful above all else, but it does to those who values all human beings equally and does not overlook the value of what labor creates. Again, we just need to agree to disagree on who counts most in the world: everyone, or just those few at the top of an artificially maintained food chain.