Looking at these charts really brings into focus how unusual and spectacular China's progress has been. China's gdp per person cuts upwards across several of t

Looking at these charts really brings into focus how unusual and spectacular China's progress has been. China's gdp per person cuts upwards across several of the other countries like its line was on a different scale or something. Same thing with the poverty one, in the opposite direction. The author says "the experience of China — the only country comparable to India in size — is very encouraging here. ... if that feat could be repeated in India, it would be absolutely incredible." But, I think that there is a certain amount of unrealistic idealism in that statement; after all, it wasn't the natural laws of unregulated capitalism or some natural result of the progression of time that brought that kind of progress, it was engineered and created. Ironically, nobody understands how capitalism works better than communists do. Of course, material advancement is not a justification for oppression. China had to sell out its own working class, at least in the short term, and silence all dissent to get those kinds of results. And it does other bad things too, which I don't need to mention, because we all know. My point is, I wouldn't expect India to follow China's path, at least, not as quickly. They don't have the chinese communist party to engineer it.