Somebody: It won't even do to condemn the imperialist west anymore. Take a look at the industrializing East. The left is pathetic or non-existant in the former and current Asian tigers. The industrial revolution fostered the socialist and social democratic left in Europe, and to an extent, in North America. Not so in the Orient - not even in those countries that never went through socialist phases like Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, etc.
At some point, you have to consider if socialism was just a peculiarly Western response to early capitalism that was temporarily re-configured to meet the demands of Third World peasants - peasants who have become remarkably apolitical and even conservative proletarians!