Yeah, it's a play on the fact that modern day China and its "socialist qualities" that ML's use to claim the country is socialist are remarkably similar if not identical to how fascist Italy worked.
They call us radical liberals for wanting to dismantle the chains of oppression and leave them dismantled. It would be impressive if it wasn't so stupid.
The working class is too dumb to do revolution on their own. That's why my vanguard party is here to teach them in ways that just happen to put me on top.
Yeah, they just need to be controlled and exploited in a way that's like 15% less evil, and one third of that needs to be me and my friends getting all the gold toilets.
To be fair this kind of "thinking" goes all the way back to the Bolsheviks convincing themselves they're the party of the proletariat even as they brought back bourgeoi management of factories and busted strikes. They're just following in the footsteps of their great leaders.
To be fair to them, they were put in a state of "siege communism" pretty much from the get go. It's a hard thing to think of solutions to for any country, especially while the US is being the US