Isn’t the idea behind communism and socialist that everyone leads a better quality of life and that we all participate to help each other?

The CPC has lifted 800 million people out of poverty: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience.

You can say whatever else you like but it sounds like hundreds of millions of people in China are leading better lives while half the west is homeless (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/queensland-homelessness-up-22-per-cent/102113366), becoming increasingly reliant on food banks (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/60-rise-use-of-food-banks-programs-canada-2023-1.6711094) and developing nineteenth century diseases due to malnutrition (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/victorian-disease-gout-rickets-vitamin-d-mumps-scurvy-measles-malnutrition-nhs-hospital-admitted-a8795686.html). Meanwhile, the main group whose living standards have dropped in China are the bourgeoisie, the feudal lords, and Western and Japanese colonisers.

There are over 90 million members of the CPC: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1227455.shtml. Sounds like millions of people are participating in helping each other alleviate the fuck out of poverty.

Is China perfect? Of course not. Are there discontents? Very probably. Does this pale in comparison to the fact of hundreds of millions of people now have housing, healthcare, and education? Absolutely.

Edit: typo.