The only part I disagree with is that the primary cause of this is christianity. Because the western left doesn't have mass labor or really mass politics at all as its support base and is instead more a market leftism there is a huge incentive towards smearing anyone threatening the revenue streams society's misery generates. It is the problem Bernie and Corbyn ran into where the possibility that long standing issues may change immediately sent orgs and "allies" into collaboration with the ruling class. The structure itself demands failure.

Foreign models like China's are a threat for the same reason. Not only because they aren't based on NGOs, but because of the contrast they provide to a left structure where people are taught that raising the minimum wage is a political project with a longer timeline than the entire October revolution.