Hmm. You don't get out much, do you? I have heard, from people who left before the 'opening' and the 'market socialism with Chinese characteristics', that there were many basic facts of living that were better under Maoist 'socialism'. These were fairly privileged people that came to the US as post-doc's etc, and stayed.
Last night, there was a better than usual _Frontline_ on teevee. It covered the 1998-2002 'restructuring' as it was going on. Many people. rural peasants and urban workers, expressed affection for the old ways...
Now don't get me wrong, *I* would not wish to live in either Soviet Russia or Maoist China, but I'm doin' OK in Capitalist USA. There are a lot of people that were doing MUCH better under old 'communism' that they are under whatever the abortion of an economic system Russia or China is running just now. So I think it would be trivial to find people who would prefer that system -- fuck, if the dweebs from PBS can find them, they obviously exist. It does nobody any good to claim otherwise....
-j