Quote Originally Posted by Seran View Post
His first sentence says it all about his beliefs.
And his 2nd sentence means nothing?

It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.


Seriously, are you the only one on the planet that believes with that quote that Sowell is a proponent of socialism?

Let's dive into Thomas Sowell's feelings about socialism then and let's see if your theory of Thomas Sowell being a proponent of socialism is true or retarded:

Thomas Sowell: Socialism for the uninformed

https://www.staugustine.com/story/opinion/2016/06/02/thomas-sowell-socialism-uninformed/16306802007/

It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
Thomas Sowell: The lure of socialism to the foolhardy

https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/02/20/thomas-sowell-lure-socialism-foolhardy/80618812/

But, most of the young have missed all that, and their dumbed-down education is far more likely to present the inspiring rhetoric of socialism than to present its dismal track record.

Other random quotes by Thomas Sowell regarding his love of socialism:

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.


What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people—like themselves—need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.


Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency. The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.


The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.


The whole political vision of the left, including socialism and communism, has failed by virtually every empirical test, in countries all around the world. But this has only led leftist intellectuals to evade and denigrate empirical evidence.


No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk. What do the poor most need? They need to stop being poor. And how can that be done, on a mass scale, except by an economy that creates vastly more wealth? Yet the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it.