Oct 23, 2026

Surviving Communism, part three: Jenny Beth Martin reads the Democratic Socialists of America's 2026 program to seven people who lived under the system it describes. The page 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. The Democratic Socialists of America are winning primaries and sending members to Congress, so she asked survivors from China, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, and Nicaragua what they recognize on that page. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a Soviet physicist and dissident, translates it into a tax rate: a moneyless system is a 100 percent tax, and the government decides who gets what. Sasha Gong, a former political prisoner in China, says that if nobody told her the source she would take it for a translation of Mao in 1958, the year collectivization began, and she describes what came a year later. Ovidiu Frusina, a mechanical engineer who spent 23 years in Ceausescu's Romania, walks through a real week without capitalism, from the 6:30 siren to the three-hour bread line. Janice Trey, chairman of the board of The Epoch Times, answers a 22-year-old who likes the pitch. Agnes Gibboney and Manuela Callini explain the store clerk who never left her stool and the pickled goods that served as a family's money. Learn more at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.

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