When you get taught about scary, scary communism as a kid, they make it sound as though it means you couldn't even own your teddy bear.

No one explains (likely because they themselves believed the same when they were taught) the difference between your teddy bear & a factory.

@artemis So much time was wasted pitting communism and capitalism against each other, when the real difference was between democracy and totalitarianism, probably because the capitalists would have been just fine with the totalitarianism.