Karl Who?

Where have all the commies gone? Gone for patriots, everyone:

On several occasions during my 10 days in China, I've been told that there are 70 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. And yet it's nearly impossible to find an orthodox Marxist in Beijing. When you stand in Tiananmen Square and look toward the Forbidden City, you see a huge portrait of Mao flanked by slogans. The slogans used to say things like "Long Live Marxism-Leninism." Today, they're simply nationalistic: "Long Live the People's Republic of China!"

When China was ruled by a universalist ideology, it was poor. At the same time, the US was a Western, patriotic nation, and prosperous. Now China's abandoning communism and is becoming prosperous, while the US is being reconstructed into a "universal" nation, and becoming poorer.