Why I quit being a Marxist | Thomas Sowell
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When he said he read other books while still being a Marxist shows you SO MUCH!
I think that's probably because when he says he was taught to respect facts, they were much more factual in his day. Instead of "we have 10 years to completely switch to renewable energy or we're all dead" aoc.
@@HOLDFASTBEAR Yet he ignores the simple historical facts that the rich care nothing about the poor until faced with a revolutionary revolt of some kind. The 59 commissionaires of the house of commons voted for the execution of King Charles which the King eventually agreed to. An English Republic was declared and a civil war ensued.
@@HOLDFASTBEAR Lmao typical conservative bullcrap
@@ayanokojikiyotaka2413 womp womp
@@HOLDFASTBEAR aww did I make you cry?🥺
"Working for the government made me a capitalist."
Incredible levels of pure genius and critical thinking skills.
@@BasedChadman Lmoa I can't believe why people take this doofues seriously
@@ayanokojikiyotaka2413 It's baffling
@@BasedChadman Ikr? I'd actually like to see one valid critique 😭
@@ayanokojikiyotaka2413 The worst part of people like Sowell is that they're intelligent while being intellectually dishonest
A shill is only dangerous when they are convincing
@@BasedChadman True.
Thomas was blessed with a great mind and common sense. I will endeavor to read all he has written, I have started that journey, thank you Prof. Sowell.
He's a true visionary that surpasses all racial barriers.
Thomas Sowell is living proof that genius can prevail against circumstance.
It gives me hope. That's for sure!
It’s never about circumstances. It’s always about choices.
He's not a genius he's a liar he never was a Marxist
@@stantheman9072 you literally just said baterial conditions don't matter you are delusional like the rest of the followers of Thomas Sowell who was never a Marxist anyway
@@kevintewey1157 so sez the voice of no authority 🙄
I can't get enough of Thomas Sowell, I have read 7 or 8 of his books, watched countless interviews over the past few months and find myself deeply entranced by his incredible ability to present facts and empirical evidence that spans generations, race, class and geography in such an effective and matter of fact manner, that I would defy anyone to refute him.
I agree. When I get in arguments with race hustlers, they may ask who I think is a great thinker or something to that effect, thinking I am going to say something to have them pounce on. I always say Thomas Sowell and so often, those that have heard of him claim he is a self-hating black man or some such typical ignorant nonsense.
Then I challenge them by asking what they know about Thomas Sowell and I get more nonsense claims that are BS of course. I tell them there is no man that I agree with on more social dynamics than Thomas Sowell. Then I ask them, if they hate Thomas Sowell so much, give me ONE stance that he has, Sowell's position and his argument, and why they disagree. Of course, no one ever has an answer.
The fact is, race hustlers are not the least bit interested in facts, statistics, and the extraordinary intellect of this man. If they were, they might just change their lives for the better and start taking personal responsibility
Ditto!
Absolutely...
This is the kind of wisdom that comes from lived experience along with academics that Dr Sowell has. He is so good at presenting everything he says with real facts backed by his own personal knowledge. It's what makes me wonder why there isn't more people in public education wanting his words shared to these students. He's the least confrontational person I have ever seen when it comes to subjects that are vitally important for this or any country to be able to thrive.
@@anthonymerchant2597 Agreed, Living legend. Check out some of his younger stuff though, he was quite a bit more confrontational. It's great stuff.
Free and great thinkers always swim against the current.
Tom is one of the clearest and most brilliant thinkers I've ever heard, And he NEVER tries to over complicate matters.
There are times when the answer "I don't know" is the most intelligent answer you can give.
That only applies to things that cannot be understood. Using that as a way to reject things we do know for the sake of clouding understanding to perpetuate class rule is unscientific.
@@ottomatedcylinder533 The problem with science and people is they can't always be understood with scientific theory. For instance the problem with psychology is when it comes to diagnosis doctors keep changing it with their patients. Things regarding people aren't always easy to understand or to put into a theory like chemistry or physics or mathematics. Peoples' problems can't be solved with an equation.
@@schizoidboy While it may not be easy to diagnose certain issues due to the complexity of humans, that does not mean humans objectively cannot be understood. If this is your stance, I should tell you that Dialectical Materialism, taking a deterministic stance on metaphysics, understands humans to be programmable like computers. Meaning with enough information they are perfectly understandable and predictable.
So it's redundant to claim that we shouldn't try to understand all functions in society because some things cannot be understood, if one of Marxism's postulates is that they can be understood through this viewpoint of Dialectical Materialism. The starting point is the belief that certain things cannot be analyzed, then Marxism sets up a way to properly analyze them, and then you reclaim that they cannot be analyzed without acknowledging Dialectical Materialism.
@@ottomatedcylinder533 I'm not schooled in philosophy, but I do understand it to be different from science, which as a discipline relies more on observations and tests. I have heard that Charles Sander Pearse declared that all science is provisional and constantly needs to be updated. If this is the same with philosophy is another matter, but different types of philosophy rise from time to time often reflecting the mindset of the people who live in that time period.
Perhaps that's not along the lines of what your referring too, but when it comes to what works and what doesn't I'm more inclined to study history, while not a hard science, does show the results of how people implement their believes and theories. Granted no two historians ever agree on anything, they can read the same document and come up with different conclusions, but then again that might be true with philosophy as well.
Thomas Sowell is a Nation Treasure!
To the committed Marxist, no one is more hated nor feared than a former Marxist
That's why they hate Russia
Nah I don't hate him. Neither do I fear him.
Especially if they're a former Marxist Jew... Always hated the most.
@@ayanokojikiyotaka2413 well you need learn more about history of Marxism
@@hospitalsgivingpatientsdan8894 What makes you think Marxists don't know that? Pretty sure Marxists emphasize learning history and the context behind books, movements and revolutions. Nice try. Bourgeois apologist.
Takes a scout mindset to continue to listen to all ideas. The scout mindset is really rare. Most people think they are their ideas and defend them even when they're terrible thoughts...
You're going to prove yourself a hypocrite because you follow a guy that never was a Marxist and tells you he knows what Marxism is
stop referring to npcs as "people".
@@freezingcathedral what's a npc?
“Always be prepared.”💪🏽
@@freezingcathedral it's really not a great idea to dehumanize anyone, no matter how dumb they are. It opens the door to all types of horrors.
Thomas Sowell is an amazing success story where truth, integrity, hard work and intellect meets Americanism. I'd give you the Medal of Freedom.
Why not canonized him as Saint Sowell the first and put his image on a ten dollar bill next to Hamilton the banker with Friedman giving a speech to the Fascist Dictator Pinochet on the reverse side. .
@@kimobrien. What a puerile comment. A Chilean dictator? Weird.
👏👏 I somehow believe this great man won't get the recognition he deserves until far into the future.
The opposite is true. If the WEF gets their way and ushers in their Marxist Utopia they'll erase Sowell from the history books. Such is the nature of tyranny.
I stopped being a Marxist because when I worked for a capitalist I was trying to be a democratic socialist and realized these people can’t help us!!
that makes no sense - Marx and Rosa Luxemberg both criticised democratic socialism and that they would fail to bring socialism which is exactly way they did by either WWI or WWII
Thomas Sowell is a force of nature, who was placed on this Earth for a purpose. A genuine gift to humanity.
The man is hailed as a Genus for discovering the US Dept of Labor wasn't taken over by Communist officials.
I was taught as soon as I was old enough to understand that marxism was socialism was communism by my mother, father, and grandmother.
They warned me about people who pushed marxism.
They taught me about China, the USSR, and Cuba.
They showed me why marxism was BAD for everybody but those who are at the top.
I have been self employed for 26 years, and gainfully employed since 1979.
Capitalism is the only way to be truly free to be who you are.
👍🇨🇦 trust me we're drowning in socialism I figure the only so-called healthy amount in the society maybe 20%, you need massive capitalism to pay for socialism!!!!! And that get's lost on people and the dangers of socialism turning into communism is very very real skating on thin ice with socialism and then if you ever read about karl Marx's life and family why you would take any leadership from such a person is beyond me
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According to Sowell, Marx was at least a good father.
@@warrioroflight6872 yes he was but it's pretty rich how he and his wife lived very affluent even to the point of going hungry to keep up appearances and I don't follow phoney people! And then to see his philosophy be the foundation of communism which has killed a quarter of a billion people this last century cheers
@@warrioroflight6872
I have a longshoreman friend who tried to raise his children as communists.
His wife divorced him and married another longshoreman who made more money.
We don't have capitalism. Thanks to the progressives in America or the Fabian Socialist the nineteenth century changed the system to a mixed economy, with an interventionist racket.
That is the system, not capitalism. It is the system of most countries in the world. That system is a hybrid of a market and the State, with progressive taxation, regulations, and inflation to financed the expansion of the government of the United States of America. The have eroded private property, the family, and the church.
The result of this state of affairs, is an administrative state, a welfare, and a security state to superintend to our lives. Telling us how to live our lives, how to run our businesses, what you should believe. This is to demoralized us, ensure we own nothing, and believe in nothing, in order to facilitate control over ours lives. If we resist, they will starve us in to submission or have us killed.
Thomas Sowell is so amazing... and brilliant...I have so much respect for him...god bless him...
This man is a national treasure
“I don’t know”, three words that you’ll never hear from the mouth of the governing class, elites, or academics. It’s nice to see the humility that allows Dr. Sowell to say that he doesn’t know. It’s often as important, or more so to realize how much you don’t know rather than your informing the world of how much you do know.
As a society & culture we are definitely in desperate need of more men like Thomas Sowell
Wow I did not know this about Thomas Sowell. Interesting that man with his aptitude changes get more intelligent as we age.
Once again, real life undermines, and overcomes, ideology. Blessings on Dr. So well.
Thank you Dr Sowell for a lifetime of dedication in being a morally and ethically man of sound principles. You have such a wealth of personal knowledge that comes from lived experience as well as academically. This is what gives your words so much more validity is the understanding of personal knowledge that comes from that. As someone who is turning 42 this month I only wished that I had been more aware of you at an earlier age, than the last several that I have. So many of your quotes are used by myself and so many others when it comes to having that kind of real wisdom you share. Thank you for everything you have given Dr Sowell.
I love everything about this NATIONAL TREASURE even if he was once a marxist.
My two favorite people to listen to are Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. They are both so insightful and so prolific in their assessments. Keep making interviews with Dr. Sowell.
Sowell is one of the brightest one you got. He is hauled as a Genius for Discovering that the US Dept of labor wasn't run by the Communist Party.
So true. On his podcast, I once heard VDH mention that he frequently had lunch with Dr Sowell while they were both at the Hoover Institute. Try and imagine the amount of knowledge, logic and wisdom present as those two men ate sandwiches and enjoyed Cokes
@@KMN-bg3yu When they finished did they head for a bath together like the citizens of Rome.
Two greats.
Two greats.
He's very smooth with the interviews....something to also study
You are the most logical man i know of...i cant fathom you ever being a Marxist.
I love Thomas Sowell. I said it.
I have a cousin that's playing around with Marx's ideas. I'm not sure if you just likes to argue with everybody cuz that is his personality. But I'll have to pick him up a copy of your book
Send him to a 3rd world slum for a year (one way ticket).
He must be fun at parties
You should. I’m a socialist and I love reading anything from any side either communist or capitalist it’s all so interesting
They have no Kwoledge of any kind of life. They live in a fantasy world that becomes a nightmare for ordinary people.
What a national treasure - a man of thought with and open mind tempered with critical thinking skills taught back when public schools were not indoctrination camps. Legend.
Tom Sowell's answer at the end......"I don't know", sealed it. Truth, and his lifelong pursuit of it, is what sets him apart from other intellectuals. After his experimenting with Marxism, he gathered enough knowledge, experience, and facts. to make him the great person he is today. A stint in the Marine Corps likely gave him some insight into sorting through meaningless clutter and lies, in very short order. None of us have time for unaccomplished intellectuals - and Sowell is their antithesis.
"I don't know" Ha ha I'll tell you. You're not afraid to speak the truth when it might be the unpopular thing to say. Thomas Sowell, you are genuine.
Great job family 👍💯
"Government is not the answer."
WELL HE CHANGED AND FOR THE BEST!! THE GOVT. CHANGED HIM!
We all who seek it, have something in common with people of truth.
The government and academia are full of people with a lot less humility and a lot more reason to be humble. God bless this man!
This is great.
Here's why I quit being a Marxist at University in NYC, despite having the nation's premiere Marxist scholar teaching us politically economy.
I had a great sociology test book years before that course, written by a polymath South African scholar. At the end of the chapters on Marx, he wrote that Karl died, leaving his family deeply in debt. That stuck with me. The example of the man, his moral depravity, let me think there was more to the story. Like Freud burning all of his papers before he died. Sketchy at best.
Reading TS subsequently on how Mark fathered a son with the family maid-- like Arnold Schwarzenegger-- without telling his wife or family 19 years before his death only amped up my confirmation biased against this original dirtiest hippie.
Marx father was a rabbi, who Karl turned his back on along with God.
Don't be fooled by a free lunch, to paraphrase Alistair Cook, on his interview of an Italian shoe shine in Grand Central station, who told Cooke the advertisement for a "free lunch" is a scam, and that applied to all of America.
Centralized government is a disaster wherever it's been Incorporated has the mechanism to realize the dreamscape of utopian equality, like Cherry pies in the sky when you die but on Earth. The title Utopia was coined by Thomas More from the Latin meaning "no place".
Centralized command economies don't work at the DMV any better than they work in China, despite their unique brand of kleptocratic fake capitalism with crooked seditious Western middlemen partners exploding the all but indentured servitude in that country.
Anyone that evokes Adam Smith-- including this interviewer, should acknowledge that within the first 12 pages of wealth of Nations, he qualifies everything to say corruption cannot exist if capitalism is to prevail. And only a fool, for someone drunk on the ideology looking at FAKE free markets, or a self-dealing CEO (Saleforce guy who recently asserted that the CEOs are the real heroes of COVID), would deny that corruption is the order of our day.
Tariffs and taxes matter-- case you're not paying attention to China's 25% tariff on American vehicles, and our zero percent tariffs on their cheap mass produced crap we gobble up on easy credit terms, so everybody in the c-suites of our top corporations have access to private jets and limos with heated seats. Economist Ian Fletcher spells it out better than I could.
Klaus Schwab better go back to his aliens in Antarctica and cut a better deal, because command economies are a bust out, as per Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Polpot, and the gentleman of Beijing who now appear to lack any semblance of Confucius' Li.
Reading the French philosophers at Sorbonne did not do Pol Pot a gram of good for the Cambodian people, or any of us looking on the depraved and difference to fake twisted Mass Formation virtue.
The only Marxists to whom I remain devoted are Groucho Chico and Harpo.
Looks like you've never read Marx
Sick story. Thanks for sharing, dude. Glad you were able to get out of that ideology.
Wasn't there a fourth?? Maybe not.
@tex8788 but Tex has. 😂 Is Tex a Chinese bot, or just a real person with mental problems ??
"Workers don't have the privilege to take a month off to protest." Sounds like a good argument to endorse marxism. I can agree with Sowell that the left isn't practicing what they preach regarding helping the working class. However I do see more leftists organizations growing power in america.
Believe it or not,I attended public schools K through 12,in Washington State.We we're taught that Karl Marx had ideas that were really bad,which led into learning about The Soviet Union.This was in the 1970s-early 80s .
During the cold war. Too many examples of communism to ignore.
They aren't necessarily 'bad' inasmuch as they have clear prerequisites that must be met in the human condition that have not been and may never be met. Those sorts of economic arrangements can work... will they do better with the same resources as capitalism? No, probably not. But they are possible and could result in a 'good-enough' standard of living (which is all some people want, I guess)
Must have been Washington not the communist side west of the mountains.
Thats called 'propaganda', which is odd, considering how many people argue that its propaganda NOW in the educational system.Marxism is THEORY, and you got a shitty education if it 'led' into learninga bout the Soviet Union because of course after the communist revolution the FIRST people executed were the communists.
The United States in the fifties was as 'centrally planned' as the soviet union, thats why all the suburbs all looked exactly alike and now are a blight to teh landscape.
By MOST accounts the soviet model was more successful than the US model of capitalism. In the fifties the US knew they were competing with the Soviet Union, so they actually had to make a decent life for people, which is why you could raise a family on the salary of a bus driver or gas pumper. Taxes were 50% just for federal taxes, while corporations paid EIGHTY percent of profits in taxes. And 10% of the economy was DIRECTLY employed just in infrastructure projects like the national highway system. That doesn't even include the number who worked for the bureaucracy, military, or those tied to industies largely subsidized by the government.
So this 'capitalism' idea is for the most part a fantasy. Almost any industry you 'decide' to operate in is largely already controled by a small powerful sector of the population, namely corporations. In business schools they outrightly teach that that whole point of goign into business is to grow just enough so that you can sell to corporation competitor and retire.
Like ANY society there were issues in Russia, but saying country X was 'bad' is just idiotic. THere are LOTS of great things about the US, but as a society its very clearly NOBODY'S example of how to build a society. Even most AMERICANS don't say that anymore, which is why there is so much rhetoric online against even being involved with politics.
The foreign m4rxist internat1onalists were still setting up roost at your time. Take note they, like b0lshevyks, went to the host country (this time 1970 USA) and inf1ltrated instutions. That's why you have places with 50 yrs of Dem ruling. They played a long game and they won.
"I don't know".
That's modesty my friend.
I have opened many people's eyes in my life, undone many illusions.
And I know why it is.
You RESEARCH, you most likely have a need to KNOW, not assume..
So you dig and dig untill there is nothing more to know about the subject, only then can you see the full picture.
This is most likely driven by good intentions.. and being willing to accept when your wrong.
Good intentions are useless without knowledge, and most ppl.who CLAIM to be "fighting for others" happily deny half the facts.
I know, it's hard to admit it's caus your the rare kind of person who TRULLY cares enough to get ALL the angles before making brash decisions and setting out to Influence others..
Ivan BET your the kind of man who will openly say "I don't know enough" if someone insists on conversation or debate, advice..on a subject your not into.
There's no way to measure how valueble you are to us big brother Thomas.
'Rich kids with fancy educations ' The BBC!
This guy is awesome😎🙏🏻👍😃
Thomas is such a legend
I agree, it takes a “lot of knowledge” to navigate life! Great concept, so true, but we need to change our education industry’s passion for the indoctrination of our young and vulnerable.
Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier is an insightful book.
Cordial! Very seasonal! ❤
Wow, this is disappointing. I was never a Marxist and I didn't need a government job to learn this.
Thomas Sowell rocks!
I adore this man.
marxism describes capitalist economics it does not tell you to seek solutions from government , marks describes capitalist economics accurately and the problems that it causes … capitalism is predatory and exploitative … if we want to talk about facts
"Facts"
What a sympathetic and shrewd man!
Sowell thinks that Marx believed in the bourgeois. government and its "department of labor." He doesn't know that in a post capitalist society there would be a dictatorship of the proletariat (No department of labor since labor rules) followed by a stateless society (no department of labor there either since there is no government).
One of only a few Black men I admire and that's saying something.....
I love this guy
Actually, Marx was not an ordinary man but an evil man.
Yep.
Marx was a lazy loser, and jealous of those that were successful.
Das kapital is a blue print for mass murder,even hitler admire marx despite marx jewishness.
He was a mooch his entire life
Proof?
I think it's also a human nature - if you live in socialist country - you're a capitalist.
If you live in capitalist country - you're socialist.
U live in democracy - a one true leader who can do everything seems like a good idea.
U live in dictatorship - you want a democracy so you can decide how to lead.
But the truth, in my opinion is, that no one's looking out for you. You have to get everything you need and want by yourself. No matter the system. However, capitalism is closest to you actually being able to do that.
In every other system, individual is heavily limited (especially a regular citizen, not the political elite - they're privileged) to attain success in his life.
One Love from Ancient Tennessee! T.S. the legend!
Consider that the abolition of slavery, the abolition of serfdom, a vast expansion of gay rights, women's equity with men, and the marginalization of religion has all occurred under capitalism in merely 200 years time. These would have been utopian goals if you lived in 1700. Nevertheless they came to pass.
It is hard to discount so called "utopias" in light of the above.
@Russ Ingram Yes, exactly.
It happened in 60 year's time in the Soviet Bloc
I was with him until he said that as a marxist he expected the bourgeios government to be like an incredible institution, which is???? This requires a *thorough* misreading of Marx.
I also feel that the approach taken to marx in the next part of the interview portrays him as if Marxists see him as some sort of prophet/messiah, which they really, really dont.
I respect Mr. Sowell as an honest intellect but he must have misread Marx's works, which was a shame.
Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of his major work.
Thomas Sowell did not use the word a single time in his book, *Basic Economics* . Karl Marx never saw a Planned Obsolescence Economy and John Maynard Keynes never saw a television commercial for automobiles.
'... for more than a decade, more-than-a-decade, you had been a serious Marxist.' (0:09) Why the drama?
To hold a political view for less than a decade would hardly constitute holding a view, merely assuming a posture.
Sowell reminds me alot of yuri bezmenov
I see alot of myself in these brave and fiercely intelligent men. I wish i had discovered all these cool dudes years ago.. but at least they gave me a fighting chance to save my soul!
Thank you
If Karl Marx was alive today, he’d live in some super expensive gentrified neighborhood paid for by his parents and complain about the struggle of being poor while at an outdoor bar sampling IPA’s and listening to gangster rap on his iPhone while admiring a mural painted by Banksy.
I tend to respect a person who honestly says "I don't know". Who knows everything? I definitely do not. So many waffle & even make up an answer when it is obvious that they simply do not know the answer.
I also have greater respect for a person who changes their former opinions in the light of new facts, logical reasoning, & empirical evidence. Few are lucky to come across good knowledge when they are young & naïve, so as one later seeks further knowledge, facts, & understanding, a person seeking wisdom might change their initial viewpoints.
I have considerable respect for Thomas Sowell; believe me when I say that I do not respect many people.
Went through the same thing at roughly the same age. Been beating myself up about it for years. Seems I'm in good company. Phew.
I've been a Marx sympathiser well into my late twenties. It pains me that I never discovered classical liberalism until my early 30s thanks to its elaborate omission in public education and media. Made so many bad decisions based off the wrong philosophy. Can't turn back now.
@@jasonbourne9819 why, are you to small a man to admit that you were foolish? A mistake is truly a mistake if you persist in it
I wonder if Dr Sowell remembers the Communist Workers Party and the Revolutionary Socialist League based in Detroit and other cities. They were quite active with counter demonstrations against the KKK in the 80s. Mostly union auto workers, self educated and passionate.
Thank you again
Envy is a poor cornerstone to set anyones life around. There's alot of freedom in abandoning that [and you'll be happier to boot].
What a mind.... it'd be really cool to talk to this guy in person
Brilliant, down to earth man. God bless Thomas Sowell.
this video kinda seems like sowell wasnt a marxist to begin with, if seeing the current government as incompetent ended his marxism youd have to question isnt a major theme of marx revolution?
Exactly. This man just shows us how laughable anticommunist propaganda is. This man has obviously never read a lick of Marx, Engels, or Lenin
@@tex8788You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think he’s read their work.
@@zachjohnson637 it's incredibly obvious he doesn't know the least about what Marx and Engels wrote. He just throws out wildly Inaccurate statements that are incongruous with marxism.
Totally agree with you
There you have it! Sowell admits that his rejection of Marxism is only based on anecdotal experience and folk psychologism, not facts.
So why did he stop with marxism? 😅
Because he became wealthy and realized how terrible it is
HOW does he not get more views and likes !! help him out with some likes !!! more people need to hear him ... share it.
Google is run by Marxists.
Any wonder two of Marx' daughters were driven over the edge by such a tyrant.
Marx was quite the opposite of the honorable dr Sowell.
Marx, a priviledged rich man's son, too lazy to work (it was below his rang), who spilled tons of (gifted and inheritance) money in order to finally end up dirt poor.
When and where was this interview? How can I watch the entire thing? Good stuff!
The dude's aMCC glands are bulging. Respect.
How are you able to swim against the current ?
When the alternative is , drift down shit creek without a paddle.
Swim baby swim !!!
Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 7:17
I wonder if he said, partly luck or partly Locke? Well, both will do, lol
He really should sit down “The Squad” and teach them a lesson in reality.
He tried.
They called him a white supremacist.
@@MMDelta9 I don’t doubt it.
Reads the thumbnail. Huh. The more you know.
Only 250 comments from his enlightenment of the benefits of capitalism? Amazing... Why is this coming out now? 3 weeks ago??
I remember having a very high opinion when reading Karl Marx. He's a fabulous historian and social science theorist. I am a historian and we use Marxism to analyze and understand societies economically. I don't think that Marxism is driving me personally. It is capitalism or some measure of desperation that drives my business innovations. I break down societies using Marxian language to describe their economics, society and political ideology. But I don't believe in it personally. I am very competitive by nature. I have superior skills in certain areas of architecture and engineering. I compete with other very smart people. As soon as a bank makes a loan to build a building, it is all economics and social scientists use Karl Marx for languaging what happens in a society. This is purely academic. I'm sure he believed it in theory. I'm not sure how much actual practice he had as a Marxist. He was experimenting with ideas in the same way Sigmund Freud was. You should want to succeed in this society because it is the best place on earth in many respects. It is not fair at all. Competing with me requires a PE degree and 10 years of experience. Then, you're getting close to where I am at. I don't have the PE degree, yet here I am with them working. I don't think Marx covers everything. He's good for a basic social construction of a society you are studying. I wouldn't point my inner compass at Marxism. The best life outcomes happen when there is fierce competition. We put marines on beach heads because it is a fight or die situation and so they always fight as hard as possible. It is kind of the same thing in human work occupations, activities. The apprentice wants to get paid better so he needs to work hard to show the boss he's ready to move up with skill.
the problem is that leftists won't watch this video.
I watched it and found it thoroughly unconvincing. This man has no knowledge of Marxism
@@tex8788 Which Marxism?
@@JangoUnchained98 the Marxism of Marx and Engels. They touch on some of his misconceptions in some of their most basic works: the Critique of the Gotha Programme and Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
This man's entire reason for abandoning "Marxism" shows that he was never a Marxist to begin with. He says he thought that the government was the solution to all market issues. This is a blatantly un-marxist viewpoint.
Any bourgeois government enterprise is just as capitalist as a privately owned govt enterprise. The bourgeois state works at the request of the big industrialists and business owners. Always has.
The earliest Marxists, Marx and Engels, knew this. They knew that capitalist states do not generate socialist economics. It is foolish as a Marxist to believe otherwise.
Those ideas were put to rest 150 or so years ago. By Marx. This man was never a Marxist. At most, he could be seen as a new deal democrat. He is a fraud and a charlatan.
From Marxist to hippie slayer.
The most amazing man in America
Lmao neither this guy nor anyone in the comments know what marxism is 😹
I use to write and broadcast children's stories - adventure stories and biographies.
I developed the skill of writing to bring the visual, tactile, olfactory and auditory to vivid life.
Towards the end of my 3 years of writing/adapting when I was also full time teaching, I asked a former school mate to take on some of the writing. The first biography she chose was that of - Marx... It was excruciating trying to generate any sense of life into those radio scripts - anything that would evoke pictures - for 10 year olds.
I realised then how devoid of life the Marxist diatribes were, and how scelerotically stuck they were - incapable of shifting towards any meeting across the dialectical divide.
I quit Marxism because I could not grow a beard like Marx.
Love TS... American Treasure, hitting that turn at 136th is day and night.. uptown downtown baby
Great work Dr. Sowell. Scooby snacks for you!
0D Monad is strong nuclear force
1D Line is weak magnetic force
2D Plane is electromagnetic force
3D Volume is gravitational force
How does this not have 10M views?? C'mon, Man!
gee...youtube owned by the lefties at google
For one that, by a key quip, scoffed at the growth of state power, Reagan's legacy was marked a sharp increase in federal spending, seemingly in contrast to such.