When hard-core Russian Marxist writer Maxim Gorky came to America, his hosts took him to the beach in Coney Island and then to a massive playground where people were being whizzed around on wires.

Then they took him to some museums, circus performances, mazes, and other entertainment venues.

They took him to a museum of freaks, a palace of jugglers, and entertained him with dancing ladies and living statuaries.

When he was asked how he liked American capitalism, he replied, “What a sad people you must be!”