Same ideals that allow for a high standard of living in the US are in place in NZ.. But that fucker is praising Marx and talking shit. If he were in a real socialist system then he'd have a 7.62 round shoved up his ass for spewing his nonsense.
Actually, I returned to Dumbfuckistan last year, and currently live in Cali. Have you ever read Marx? Or, like most Americans that bought into the capitalist propaganda, just assume that everything he wrote about is wrong. His views on what capitalism would become are coming to fruition (accumulation of wealth by the rich, increasing percentage of poor, money trumping ethics and human relationships).
True communism has not yet happened (not in Russia and not in China).