So many cases of 'I believed in Marx...and then I grew up'.

@samrapheal1828

Жыл бұрын

Correctamundo maximus ✔️

@RichardHartness

Жыл бұрын

The big problem today is so many young people never grow up.

@gregoryfilar1783

Жыл бұрын

Still waiting to hear the following: „” I ran a small business and struggled for years to build my company but gave it all up because I became a Marxist ( and came to love the part about high taxes and burdensome regulations).”

@aboetarikske

Жыл бұрын

@@RichardHartness 'magical thinking'

@Blefiz

Жыл бұрын

🙋🏾‍♂️

Only a real man can admit he was wrong.

@patriciagraham222

Жыл бұрын

He is more than a real man, he is an exceptional human being and much admired, especially by me.

@samrapheal1828

Жыл бұрын

@@patriciagraham222 Correctamundo 💯

@terrorbilly1

Жыл бұрын

Admittance of wrong does not prevent from making mistakes. **cough** Trickle down economics **cough**

@Comminsense12

Жыл бұрын

@@terrorbilly1 go on?

@kevinpeterwareham8131

Жыл бұрын

i must be the ultimate man......ive NEVER been right.

love watching his interviews, as a Canadian i believe he is a national treasure for the US

@williamstdog9

Жыл бұрын

I am Canadian and I approve this comment!!! 💪😊👍

@KaoticOrder

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for Jordan Peterson though.

@AnnE-mn8ny

Жыл бұрын

Sowell is a national treasure internationally.

@sabejreid2072

Жыл бұрын

He should be knighted or whatever they have in the USA

@TheMikew79

Жыл бұрын

agreed

Grateful for this man and his honesty. Also love Peter as his interviewer.

I worked in government for part of my career. There are some very good people working in government but many mediocre and far too many downright incompetent. One estimate is that 25% of the people do 75% of the work. Will the government save us? Not a chance.

@thepope2412

Жыл бұрын

25% of people doing 75% of the work is actually fairly typically with intellectual labor

@Snowcat-rg7bz

Жыл бұрын

A co-worker asked why a system upgrade was slowing everything down. I responded " Who do you work for?" (State Government) "And you actually thought the upgrade was going to make things better." I laughed and went to lunch.

@Mike__G

Жыл бұрын

@@Snowcat-rg7bz Come to think of it, here in Canada, the federal government created the “Arrivecan” app that was a $53 million boondoggle costing an order of magnitude more than it should have and was full of embarrassing bugs sending thousands of vaccinated off to quarantine by mistake. They also created the Phoenix pay system that for years has been failing to pay civil servants correctly. Under Trudeau, a national emergency is a bunch of trucks honking their horns in front of the Parliament Buildings, they can’t issue passports in a timely manner and they can’t balance the budget. They’ve been promising Indigenous clean water on the reserves, but have never delivered. They can’t seem to recover billions in COVID relief overpayments. But they’re going to save the planet from global warming.

@EricJones.

Жыл бұрын

Pareto Principle. 20% do 80% of the work

I love Thomas Sowell's books and his arguments. So far I agreed with everything he wrote or said and that is why, I'm trying to find a topic where I disagree with him. ...I'm still searching

@traczebabe

Жыл бұрын

Searching will give you more knowledge & facts, whether or not you find something that you don’t agree with Mr. Sowell. I’ve learned more through reading and research. I know there was something I disagree with Mr. Sowell on, except I can’t remember what it was. Good luck!

@xGmunio

Жыл бұрын

@@Psalmist6693 I can't think of any chapter where He blamed "white people". The Media is blaming white people and Sowell is actually showing why their blame game isn't based on reasonable facts. And Tom Sowell never striked me as the Moses typ yelling "Let MY PEOPLE go" He speaks reason and that's it! He doesn't speak for "black people" or for "his people"

@xGmunio

Жыл бұрын

@@Psalmist6693 Since you are claiming there is such a video out there "somewhere" why don't you go ahead and do the research and add the link or title to our conversation. While you are doing the research, ask your self this: Does every logical and reasonable argument that Tom Sowell ever made, become unlogical and unreasonable, just because he said something that you don't agree with? 🤔

"The youthful offspring of privilege call themselves the proletariat." Perfect. "I am not accomplishing anything with what I've been given. How can I paint myself with virtue?"

Tom was right about Occupy Wall Street protestors. They were just rich kids feeling guilty about their status.

@samrapheal1828

Жыл бұрын

BLM secret: "Grifting White Guilt" for social creed & major profit$✔️

@patricksullivan7140

Жыл бұрын

Yep. This is where Academia has totally been taken over by Marxist. These young minds were massaged into this way of thinking by their professors. Who were brainwashed as well. All the while having absolutely no real world experience whatsoever. Bunch of high minded, useful idiots, living in an "intellectual" bubble. They have pushed this ideology with no consequence, or objective push back. I will say this as a plain old high school graduate. You cannot piss on my boot and tell me it is raining. The ONLY way the Marxist/Communist regimes have ever been able to survive is by brute force. They establish power by promising utopia. Then they squash all who oppose while EVERYONE becomes poor and dependent on government. It is not hard to see this.

@the-based-jew6872

Жыл бұрын

As are extinction rebellion. If you look they are ALL preppy kids. Or my people, makes fools of themselves... I dispise Jwsh Marxists. They give us a bad name.

@Snowcat-rg7bz

Жыл бұрын

Until they inherit the family fortune.

I never get tired of listening to the great Dr. Thomas Sowell! Such wisdom.

@patriciagraham222

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts entirely - wonderful human being. God bless him and his family.

just discovered Sowell and its incredibly refreshing to hear his takes.

@traczebabe

Жыл бұрын

Start reading his books. They go into more depth. Amazing amount of knowledge and things I believe we should of learned in school.

I remember Soviet communists also called themselves "progressive humanity" and preached " liberty, equality and brotherhood", they were accusing the west of exploitation of working people but I don't know the country that would exploit working people worse than soviets themselves. They blamed western way of life yet at the same time "the Party" tops preferred western luxury goods. Lenin didn't choose to live in a barrack like ordinary workers, he reserved nice and stylishly furnished mention. When AOC instead of a buying Ford focus, buys a Tesla I kind of get it.

@Isisbridge

Жыл бұрын

Not much different to the modern-day mantra of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion'.

@samrapheal1828

Жыл бұрын

@@Isisbridge Correctamundo maximus💯

@PolishBehemoth

Жыл бұрын

I used to be a communist. Then i visited relatives in poland and sqw the decrepid conditions of life. Everythjng about the left is based on a lie.

Dear Sir, I am honored to understand that I share the same journey with you. I was a Marxist when I was young. You live long and healthy!

Honestly, it’s very hard core me to imagine Mr. Sowell as a marxist. I like that he doesn’t hide from it but laughs at how silly he was in his youth. Proof indeed that with age comes wisdom

@sandyjuntunen4088

Жыл бұрын

No- many never learn or grow at all. Look at people like Bernie Sanders. Talks one thing- socialism is the answer. But owns 3 mansions, is a millionaire, wouldn't give that away for anything! But still tells regular people they should share all thet have. Clueless idiot.

@sabejreid2072

Жыл бұрын

Agree, but coming from poverty he was likely to believe - as my Parents came from poor areas and they were Troxtskyites - and then they grew up and were unabashed conservatives, working hard for what they got - and keeping it.

i wish he had participated in more documented conversations with people who disagreed with him. Would love to see his ideas interact with others

One thing to keep in mind is that if it can happen to Thomas Sowell, it can happen to anyone; this should evoke some patience and compassion as one tries to pull together the wherewithal to help someone out of what is essentially a cult.

This man should be required reading in every high school in America. Maybe every school period. God bless Thomas Sowell. Patriot. Role model.

It Appears One Summer working for the government was a wake up call 😎👍🙏🏼

I studied Marxism for a semester at a California university back in 1991. On paper, It all sounded good to me. I never thought much about it throughout my adult life until I joined an Occupy group in 2011. My eyes were quickly opened. Within the first-week individuals were fighting for power. Our group camped in a public park. Most of the members chose to sit around and smoke weed and drink alcohol. They were supposed to be carrying signs protesting whatever (I cannot remember what their grievance was) But carrying signs was too much work for them, instead, they expected the members who had jobs to give (the lazy ones) food and whatever else they wanted. About a month later a few members demanded the money the group collected from people dumb enough to contribute be available to the group. Before that only 2 people knew where the money was so it would be safe. Within 3 days all the money was stolen. What a surprise! That was enough for me. Marxism, socialism, and progressive ideology are all communism! I say no to all of it!

@TheWhitehiker

Жыл бұрын

I had a very similar experience at a DC March protest in the 1980s; I also learned quickly.

@Ston247

Жыл бұрын

Good for you ! Growing up in the cold war, we learned about communism in the 5th grade. It really unified all the kids and made us proud to be Americans. Black, White, Chinese, Hispanics we all blew our noses at Marxism.

@xisotopex

Жыл бұрын

some of those people are probably now soros funded DA's...

Dr sowell should be a REQUIRED COURSE IN EVERY SCHOOL and in every GRADE LEVEL....

Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams and Milton Friedman and the big three in common sense.

@dirtfarmer7472

Жыл бұрын

Common sense isn’t very common anymore.

It's the worst opinion I had too when I was a child.

Socialism and communism are completely impossible without the high productivity of capitalism.

@shubhamjaiswal2337

Жыл бұрын

Eloquent

I hope Mr. Sowell seeks public office.

@billmelater6470

Жыл бұрын

As much as I would love that too, you do know he's in his early 90's right?

@sabejreid2072

Жыл бұрын

He's a teacher and professor, a writer. Not a politician. That is obvious and he's ancient, really ancient now.

I would think once he read Mises’s 1920 essay “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth”, he’d stop being a Marxist. The essay shows planned economy socialism to be literally impossible.

To a Marxist, no one is more hated or more feared than a former Marxist

The boundless wisdom of Sowell.

Encyclopedia for $1.19. We’re being conned!😂😂😂

Greatness. Thomas Sowell is Greatness.

Good lesson sr

PRAISE TO A TEACHER (The sixth and final year at the "Prince of Wales" boarding school, Nairobi, Kenya. Year 1957) We waited for our "Literature" teacher at class time. When he finally arrived, he apologized for being late and he said he was in a meeting to explain a new idea of his. He told us that he had decided to stop teaching us the usual texts. We were left speechless! To our perplexities, instead of giving explanations, he asked two questions ... At the rows to his right, he asked which of us knew Karl Marx ……. after the surprise, one asked where this person lived. At the rows to his left, he asked who knew Adam Smith …... one immediately asked if this guy was English or American. Rubbing his chin, he just said "oh!" Then he went on to tell us that he understood of our ignorance, despite of our intelligence. He pointed out that by the end of the year, many of us would be going to university or other destinations, and we knew very little about the current situation in the world. (For example, that in the previous year there was an invasion of Budapest by Russian tanks.) "My job will be to teach you how to learn on your own, and I will follow you throughout the term." Then, pointing his finger at me, he said "John*, you will be the coordinator of your half and you will go to the library to research all about Karl Marx." Pointing his finger at Bill* on the left, he told him, that he will be the coordinator of the other half to research all about Adam Smith. Every week we should notify him about our results or problems. In the fifth week, he checked if we had enough knowledge to present what we had found, and with our positive response, a new surprise arrived. "You will have to convince the other group of the validity of what is proposed in YOUR research, compared to the OTHER." I therefore asked him the question ... "How can we compare our research vs theirs if we don't know what the other is proposing?" He just replied ... "John, you're on the right track, get busy, and let me know when you are ready!" Our group, after another four weeks, advised that we were ready, while the other asked for the following week. (If they had spent that week to find the negative points proposed by K.M. (as we did for A.S.) the result would have certainly changed. Updated 2019) ( Privately, I asked the teacher why he had chosen ME to propose Karl Marx, since after studying both ideas, I preferred those of Adam Smith. His reply was that he expected this of me, because I always used logic and not emotions as many do, and wished me not to change in the future. But we also learned from this teacher that one should always be open to listening to all the points made by others, and only then evaluate. )

God bless you, sir.

It continually mindfucks me that a former marxist helped save my life. it's so crazy. reminds me of roman soldiers that Jesus managed to convert to christianity

It really showed how he had a mature vision towards what he actually wanted done so much that any veil of obscurity formed from a certain perspective would be easily thrown away when he realizes the true nature behind it. It shows how he wasn’t after things intellectually but to actually make a difference

Rush Limbaugh told us for 30 years...

@samrapheal1828

Жыл бұрын

Ditto 💯

Listening to that clip separated from the whole video, gave it a more powerful impact as not processing all the information in one sitting. Tom's casual analyses of Marx, the character of the generations of leftists following, the example of the Occupy movement, bring home not only Tom's brilliance, but also the bankruptcy of the Communist/Socialist movements themselves. Not mention; the abject failure of Socialism in over 40 countries - and much worse - the multi-millions of deaths attributed to Communist governments. And, the death toll continues to rise in these modern times - China - Russia - North Korea - need I say more? Finally: TSTV you have done well in your choice of clips but also in the titles. Never click-bait, always tied to the substance and a way that garners interest - at least in my opinion. Thx guys

I wonder if Thomas Sowell has read Marx: Prophet of Darkness and his opinion of that book.

I wish I could download his brain😂

@sabejreid2072

Жыл бұрын

Mmm I just wish I understood it all - but I can tell he's telling the truth. Like Jordan P - he is very complicated but I know when he speaks he is searching for the truth. He says by speaking we understand what we think.

He's 92 years old now

"'Progressive' realization..." haha

A false reading of history results in dire cosequences

Thank the Lord that public schools back in the 50s(?) actually taught critical thinking

I always thought Groucho was funnier than Karl anyway.

@jimmyjohnson6232

Жыл бұрын

😆

Even for Thomas Sowell this is a good one.

"There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth which ours has... that some minimum of food, shelter, and clothing, sufficient to preserve health and the capacity to work, should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom." Friedrich Von Hayek (Godfather of free-market capitalism)

@mazzaleen6091

Жыл бұрын

Only dumbass commies play the identity and name game rather than judging an argument based on the argument itself. Go home and take a shower.

@trauma50disaster1

Жыл бұрын

the statement is not addressing the person's responsibility in securing these things listed. If the person works hard but has a hardship, the group might judge he is a hard worker and has potential to once again be productive, then they might bail him out temporarily to get him back on his feet to work hard again. But not generational wellfare...with no hard work.

I was left wing also. Then I found out right wing is more fly.

God bless you Thomas Sowell. You are an American treasure in my humble opinion. Unfortunately, Thomas Sowell does not get all the credit he really deserves. 🙏🙏 ♂️ 👞

Im a Canadian immigrant we need Mr Sowell's common sense in our Canadian Parliament. Trudeau and his allies are destroying and bankrupting glorious Canada.

He must be protected at any cost because I don't see anyone who could fill his gargantuan footsteps. God knows who could use someone like him in Germany.

0:57 when you wanted to say "so well" but you almost said "Sowell" and had to pause lol. But who am I to make jokes on last names, I'm a Wang

The following people were on the left: Ronald Reagan Thomas Soul Matt Taibbi Barry Weiss Glenn Greenwald Michael Shellenberger Alan Dershowitz Tim Pool Telsy Gabbard Trump was a Democrat, Russell Brand Tulsi Gabbard Joe Rogan Jordan Peterson

@sabejreid2072

Жыл бұрын

And the Left has gone AWOL

Marx was an idealist, but never a realist. His utopian view has always gravitated to a totalitarian reality. Communism is actually an oligarchic dystopia.

@ricardoh87

Жыл бұрын

Anything is possible in theory

wow, so shallow, just character critique & observations on current governments

I found it interesting that Mr Sowell quoted Karl Marx describing himself as “God like”. Do not socialise replace God with their own ego?

Critical Thinking Skills

Albeit I deeply admire Dr. Sowell, sadly i only hear lots of talk, mostly critique. Please consider leaving a legacy to AMERICAN children. A book or curriculum on citizenship, economics, etc.. 🤔

👍👍💪🇺🇲

Three main issues 1. Marx is often interpreted in a state of dispair and poverty. This can lead seeing the world from a victim mindset or from shallow view on justice 2. Marx is rarely understandable if you have no education in economics. I understood the Kapital very well as an economist and was flubbergasted what for a kind of crap other ppl made out of the very same book I read 3. Marx never made a statement how a new economy or society should be built he just hinted that the commune of Paris is promising 4. Additionally like Sowell said Marx was just a men a flawed men and no God or light figure for petite bourgeoise offspring who wants to rebell. I guess if Marx would have known the abominations ppl would develop on the base of his work he would have reformulate them.

I love Thomas Sowell's insight, but he doesn't seem to cite anything as "the worst opinion I ever held". I guess it's supposed to be Marxism, but a more valid headline would be something like "Marx Was Just A Man". I mean there are all sorts of opinions within Marxism, and Thomas does not seem to discuss a simple opinion, rather a studentship of Marxism. When I click on a link that says "The worst opinion I ever held", I guess I'd like to hear exactly what and why Thomas thinks something is so bad an opinion.

@dustybizzle1

Жыл бұрын

That was my thought - he says "working in government and seeing how poorly it was run cured me of my marxism", which it's like, ok so the existence of a poorly managed government office somehow debunks all of marxist doctrine? Labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, all gone in a flash because some public sector workers are bad at their jobs? No explanation or qualification for these statements whatsoever... very weird lol

56th, 6 December 2022

The early Marx attacked capitalism in the same way as did religious conservatives.

Marx did understand capitalism before writing his book because his Uncle founded The Philips Electronics company and he turned down a job there.

@yt.damian

Жыл бұрын

How does that show understanding?

@garfield3443

Жыл бұрын

@@yt.damian He could see directly how a successfully run business operates but he didn't want to work. I guess he was happy to live off his wife's money. 😂

@danielmeadows3712

Жыл бұрын

He didn’t need a job , he had a benefactor supporting him.

Not much difference between communist and Nazis

angry Karl Marx poems

What if was never a Marx lover what then?

It is too bad that Marx did not, as a young man, emigrate to Argentina and work as a freelance cowhand. Then he might have gone in history as ____________! [You finish it.]

"My transition to sanity."

Cfr clowns

Marx wasn't a marxist

shill

@Thomas SowellTV Orwell said similar things about his own “comrades” and fellow organizers in Great Britain’s Marxist movement- that they were a bunch of rich and elitist brats. He also noted that they spoke all that rot about “the proletariat”, but that when it came right down to it, they despised working class people. What do y’all think about Antony C. Sutton and others proof that Marx was in fact the then patriarch of the Ratschild family’s third cousin; and that he and Engles were actually hired and paid by him via his World zionist Congress to write their pamphlets and manifestos? In my opinion that really puts one in the eye of these Anti-Fa and BLM activists. We all know the horrible things that Johnson said when he implemented welfare, and his having malicious intent behind it, directed at the Black community. But that aside, would you reckon that could be yet another one of the reasonings behind the Welfare State and Universal Basic Income is just that: to find a way to broaden the base of Marxists to the rest of the population; rather than the elitists needing to rely solely upon rich intellectuals and college students alone to force us into their New World Order and enslave humanity? Cheers; and love the videos wether y’all are associated with Dr. Sowell, or not. Truly appreciate it.