In America, the "bourgeois" is usually called "The American Dream". Most Americans idealize the middle class income and middle-class lifestyle and middle-class families and middle-class values. Ranting against that is usually a non-starter.
> my wife's parents suffered greatly in China by having their property taken from them
Many people were killed in China, of starvation, political punishment, etc. It should be an object lesson to the world, don't turn your government over to a corrupt dictatorship, even if they promise you communism.
Ranting about the Jews is a non-starter, too, but neo-nazis manage. How much respect do you think the hard left has for the "American Dream"?
> It should be an object lesson to the world, don't turn your government over to a corrupt dictatorship, even if they promise you communism.
"Hey, let's turn over our country to a corrupt dictatorship", said nobody. The fact that communist flags are regularly flown at leftist protests should be a tremendous national scandal and embarrassment, with our media educating the populace on the horrors of communism. They should be no more tolerated than swastika flags.
I don't know what the "hard left" is, but I know that teachers, labor unions, and local political leaders are all about jobs and wages.
> The fact that communist flags are regularly flown at leftist protests should be a tremendous national scandal and embarrassment, with our media educating the populace on the horrors of communism.
Look at Boston. Tens of thousands of people marched. There was one guy with some socialist literature, and a couple guys who were anti-GMO food, and then someone trying to sell you a copy of his music CD. But the overwhelming majority stood for free speech, representative democracy, and equal protection under the law.
But let's face it, you can walk into any Starbucks in Boston and find one crazy person there too.
When Mao's government began, it was very far from a corrupt dictatorship. I've actually never seen anyone say Mao was corrupt, personally, and it's arguable that the thousands of years of Chinese history prior to Mao had been corrupt dictatorships.