And all of the things you describe about China, in both your larger analogy and in your final paragraph happened after the country abandoned its communist dogma

And all of the things you describe about China, in both your larger analogy and in your final paragraph happened after the country abandoned its communist dogmas in favor of a market economy (a highly fascistic one to be sure but a market economy in many ways nonetheless). The original post as I interpreted it seemed to claim that China's communist experiment is what improved the lot of its people. It did not. As for India, it is falling behind and its governments since the end of colonial rule have made many mistakes to make development tragically slow but none of these are creations of market economics. They're the dredges of heavy handed and often corrupt bureaucratic administration (even if it doesn't self-label itself as socialist).