Yeah, even Thomas Sowell started out a Marxist. It goes with the stupidity and vacuity of youth. Sowell grew out of it. Angela did, too.
In East Germany, what choice did she have?
If that were true, then she would be a firm opponent of the social market economy as well. Instead, she’s actively strengthened that system, to the point where economists in the EUSSR are calling for the death of the “Anglo-Saxon capitalist model” even though Anglo-Saxon liberals have been working to destroy Anglo-Saxon capitalism anyway.