And the larger point is that China, and Russia before it, adopted communism while still largely a peasant societies. They just exchanged their emperor/tsar for a central committee. Advanced societies have to go through a long march of socialism that gradually takes away liberties and choice. Boil the frog and you get a Venezuela.
I honestly think that Bernie just wants to collapse the system here because he believes that what will come out the other side will be an authoritarian state.
Even the big money guys like Bloomberg have apparently decided that political power is richer than riches.