I Love Capitalism! I hate Socialism!

We are at the point of no return because the Democratic Socialists of America Party has adopted the socialist platform of the twentieth century’s former Iron Curtain socialist countries run by the Communist Party;

Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh , Bio and Archives--October 26, 2026

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As a naturalized American by choice, I love my adopted country in which I spent my entire adult life. I grew up under a socialist republic and a socialist economic system run by the Communist Party apparatchiks. My twenty years there can help me make a clear and realistic comparison of the two economic systems.

Under socialism, the government controls all the means of production, dictates all quotas and makes five-year plans for the economy

It is obvious that I love the freedom of capitalism otherwise I would not be here. I hated socialism, the steppingstone to communism so much that I left behind everything I knew and loved, my mom and dad, my large extended family, my friends, and so many memories.

When the communist dictator who ruled the country with an iron fist for over four decades was executed in 1989, the people were elated that they did not experience the communist “paradise” Marx proposed theoretically, “to each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." They could only imagine how much worse the Communist Man would have been after the failed and miserable Socialist Man.

Under socialism, the government controls all the means of production, dictates all quotas and makes five-year plans for the economy.

Paul B. Skousen defined Socialism simply as “the government force to control and change society,” and how it “progresses like a snake eating its tail.” Skousen wrote about the seven pillars of socialism:

All-powerful rulers (the government and the communist party)

Societal division into castes (India) or classes (proletariat and the party members)

All things in common (everything allegedly........

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