capitalism vs. equality

the hypocrism of the American people never ceases to amaze me. As a nation we drive to equalize each and everyone of our citizens, yet at the same time we pride ourselves about our "American dream" a.k.a. capitalism. But to equalize our nation we would in fact have to become socialists or even go as far as communism. I have been thinking of this for some time now, and for our society to achieve complete equality, something we have been striving to do since the times of M.L.K. Jr., that would mean we would indeed need to distribute the wealth of our nation more evenly throughout our social classes. To perfectly obtain this long sought after goal of equality we would then have to get rid of our "American dream" or we would become another Cuba. As a side note I am not preaching communism, just pointing out a fact, so dont start another Red Scare and exile me to someother communistic state.