If you are talking historically, as in the last 100 years... it was a HUGE problem...but gradually it has started to die out.
If you look at things in a snapshot of just that time frame...I can see your point.
If you step back and look at the larger picture it was a foreign idea put into China. It was experimented on for 30 years and then began to decline, which it continues today to do just that.
My point is, there is something larger than communism in China that is at the root of the problem between the PRC and Taiwan.
"My point is, there is something larger than communism in China that is at the root of the problem between the PRC and Taiwan."
If the Communists in Red China would allow a middle class to develop I might agree with you. But they wont, because they know it would challenge their hold on power. Thus permanent slave labor/sweat shops where wages and working conditions never improve. There are very good reasons (from a Communist perspective) why they are running their economy in this manner.