Well, let’s hope he meant since they abandoned Maoist communism which caused more extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization.
Orwell on Socialists
"The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ’we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ’them’, the Lower Orders."...
