The reason why you still see goods made in the Soviet Union or other socialist states like Yugoslavia in circulation is that they were made to last and not to increase some capitalist's profits through planned obsolescence.
the west cannot comprehend martyrdom because their civilisation is organized around comfort and consumption. to them dying for liberation seems irrational because they have never loved anything more than individual survival.
The reason China surpassed the US is simple:
China invests in housing, education and healthcare to enrich its people. The US invests in war to enrich its oligarchs.
As a result 90% of Chinese people own homes while 70% of Americans struggle to afford housing, food & healthcare.
When China suffered great famine in the end of 1950s. US denied China from buying grains. It even spreaded the words that Mao allowed it to happen and tens of millions of Chinese died. Chinese people couldn't do anything but endure. They learned that they can only rely on themselves.
Fast forward to today, now US-led World Bank is accusing China for hoarding food and fertiliser.
The irony.
This is probably the single most ignored teaching and reality the majority of Western communists get wrong and ignore.
>You built a business. You bad.
Where do the means of production come from? What's left to seize but useless financial firms and the MIC?