Jenny Beth Martin read the Democratic Socialists of America's 2026 program out loud, the page that asks you to imagine a day without capitalism: no bills, no debt, no mortgage, no landlord, housing as a human right, retirement publicly funded, and food, energy, medicine, and transportation run as common goods. Her audience was seven people who grew up under governments that promised exactly that, and she asked them what they recognize. A Soviet dissident translates the page into a tax rate. A survivor of Mao's China hears the 1958 collectivization order in new words and remembers what came a year later. A Romanian engineer walks through what a day without capitalism actually looked like, from the morning siren to the bread line. This is part three of the Surviving Communism panel.
Guests: Sasha Gong, former China director at Voice of America, former political prisoner in China, and Harvard PhD; Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, Soviet physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident, exiled in 1980; Agnes Gibboney, founder of Angel Families of America, whose family fled Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956; Ovidiu Frusina, a mechanical engineer who spent 23 years in Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania; Manuela Callini, who grew up under Romanian communism; Captain Onofre Gutierrez, born in Managua, Nicaragua; and Janice Trey, chairman of the board of The Epoch Times, born in a forced labor camp during China's Cultural Revolution.
Today's topics:
• Jenny Beth Martin reads the Democratic Socialists of America's 2026 program, the page that asks you to imagine a day without capitalism, to seven people who lived under it
• Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev's translation: a moneyless system is a 100 percent tax. The state takes every dollar you earn, then decides who gets what
• Sasha Gong: the page reads like Mao's 1958 collectivization order. Communal kitchens, the grain taken, then the seed grain, then the famine
• Why American researchers concluded in 1961 that China had no famine: Beijing kept exporting grain, and the leaders had purged anyone who would tell them
• Ovidiu Frusina's week in Ceausescu's Romania: the 6:30 siren, no hot water, a bribe for the boss, a three hour bread line, and a Party official vetoing an engineer's work
• The Dacia: save for six years, wait four more, then take the car with the oil leak and the door that will not close, or go to the back of the line
• Manuela Callini's family currency: pickled goods from her father's factory, traded for the toothpaste the state did not stock
• Agnes Gibboney's fabric store clerk who would not get off her stool, because she was paid whether she sold anything or not
• Janice Trey to a 22-year-old who likes the socialist pitch: compare Taiwan to the mainland, remember Hong Kong, and ask who is behind it and where it ends
• Yarim-Agaev: Lenin's Bolsheviks called themselves the Social Democratic Workers Party too. The word to watch is totalitarian, and the old anti-communist consensus of both parties is worth restoring
• Sasha Gong on why Islamists and socialists march together: the Shah's 1979 warning to the CIA about the red-black alliance, and why the CIA dismissed it
• "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us": the saying every communist country shared
• Next in the series: the same program's call for a new constitution, public ownership of the largest corporations, and the abolition of the Senate, the Electoral College, the police, and prisons
• Vote for liberty and against communism. Help get out the vote at iwillsaveamerica.com
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