Pinko repentance? Perish the thought

Consider the case of China, which at the height of communism was the only country in the world to have a GDP per capita lower than it did in 1000 AD. A teensy, tiny clue there, wouldn’t you say, to suggest that maybe state-enforced egalitarianism, Big Government, and other Leftist sacred cows bring only poverty and misery? Mais non, mais non, says Pepe. Dees ees absoord.