Mara is typical NPR leftist. From her vantage Marx is centrist. She is worried the jig is up and people realize the Rats are a pack of tyrannical Socialists.
They will shift to praising China I think. Many young people do not know how bad it is in China and but do know that China makes great smartphones and other items they want.
I think of that lone freedom fighter standing in front of the line of Tanks in Tiannamen Square in 1989 I think. The communists promptly disappeared him -just another victim in that Orwellian nightware regime, the worst/largest this world has ever seen.