what are your sources of info, so that the "but the USA" crowd can learn about your reality?
And before you say not all communist are alike and you can't generalize… yeah no, they are quite alike and you can generalize. Anyone who lived in any of them knows exactly what guanxi and other social concepts mean, the cultures are remarkably cookie-cutter.
Why are "victims of communism" allowed to generalize from their experience, while "victims of capitalism" are not?
And before the nitpicking starts, I'm well aware that monied interests can influence democratic politics. That does not make an economic system a political system. It would be like calling democracy an economic system.