Socialism (communism) or capitalism? Make your pick, please.

And do not ask Karl Marx, he did not have a clue!

Grass is greener on the other side. It’s 1000% rule, ladies and gentlemen. Most of people, who are clamoring about communism (and socialism), practically do not have a clue about reality of it.
They live happily or unhappily in their blissful ignorance in a society with substantial freedom of speech (and other freedoms). They can say and print whatever they want and other passers-by are so polite and unrestricted, that they can even buy these ramblings or have it for free and read it, no matter how crazy or damaging for they psyche it might be!
They (writers) sure have a nice apartment with running hot and cold water with separate taps for it. They have a nice habit of having a steaming cup of coffee in the morning or whenever they like it while dreaming about better society and writing all kinds of sounding-clever-on-paper things.
They have plenty of time to sit in a warm and cozy room and write about any clever or stupid ideas of theirs or somebody else’s! They can swear at government and politicians, blame presidents, living and dead ones.
They criticize everything and everybody knowing very well, that nobody will come and arrest them, no matter how long or how stubborn they ‘ve been barking at their own tree…
They have never been on the other side of the fence, that’s why it so easy for them to write…
So, please, guys stop blaming Mr. Obama with being pro-communist or pro-socialist and listen a little to the world of some reality or experience.
By stroke of destiny (or was it a joke of destiny) I had experience in both worlds. I was born into socialism, lived there in a small place near Baltic Sea, more like a spit on the map but this spit is my old country and I love it very much!
By the way, people who live there are great patriots and hard working and honest, though very confused sometimes and do not know whom to believe any more. They have been lied to and deceived by all kind of ideas so much! Now they do not know whom to believe to.
In 1992 I was transplanted into different country - Canada, into capitalism,(or so they call it here) without any idea what I am going to do and how I am going to survive (with 3 small kids of mine ) and a husband with absolutely grandioso ideas and no clue what to do with them (ideas, not kids).
My husband came first by invitation of a business partner (finally we were allowed to have a business in our country!) and decided to stay. I did not want to come, I was completely scared. It was 1990, “perestroika”, inflation, tremendous social changes, no stability. I was scared to leave, I was scared to stay… I did not know what to expect.
I did not want to become a reluctant immigrant, but I was afraid of possibility of civil war over there, I did not want to be hurt, not with children. There was such a possibility at that time. Everything was stirred in the society big time.
Now, looking back, after 17 years of living under capitalism, though with some socialistic features like free medical services and welfare (we did not have a welfare in my country, because we did not have unemployment at that time), I can tell you frankly: I am choosing this blamed capitalist system with all its faults and insecurity and economical turmoil.
It is more natural, more viable, more real. It can be cruel and mean if we allow ourselves to be weak and feeble. Sometimes it forces you to be creative and it’s definitely not perfect (no system is perfect, there is no such thing). You have to understand, how it works, you have to do a lot of learning if you want to flourish, not perish in it. But it has great potential and it is up to us, people, to make it work better, to change it, to grow in it and with it.
For people who believe that communism is better: well,socialism is Utopia, perfect world on paper, mean in reality.
At a certain point we believe in Santa Claus and Peter Pan but then we have to grow up and understand that people make system the way it is. If you do not like it, you can leave and go somewhere else or you can stay and try to make it better.
But if you are not allowed to do anything by you own will, if system controls everything in your life, yourself including, that kind of system is not livable and not human.
It is damaging, dangerous and is doomed. THAT IS MY OPINION. But I am just a reluctant immigrant, am I? So how can I judge?
By the way, if you never read George Orwell’s “1984”, you must read it. At a certain period of time(way before Gorbachev) in my country some people went to Siberia for 25 years just for having it on their bookshelf.
So you owe it to them to read it. It’s grotesque and very real at the same time. Grotesque for people, who never lived under communism and very real for people who did.
See you later guys.