Commentary Those who thought America was turning communist I would privately think of as paranoids. No longer. This change evolved from my observation of how communism is actually practiced in the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union—all of which I visited. It was readily apparent that little in these countries favored “the people,” as advertised. The populace seemed less equal than any places I had ever been, even to the obviously differing cut of cloth used on the supposedly egalitarian blue Mao suits worn by all in 1979 China. It was no accident Castro died a billionaire and Xi Jinping sleeps in Zhongnanhai, The Forbidden City, where the emperors lived. Today, Beijing has more billionaires in number than New York. Marx’s “dictatorship of the proletariat” was theoretical hooey thought up by a narcissist in a museum library with little reference to what was going on, or …