/lit/ - Literature

Sowell

What are some authors like Thomas Sowell?

>>16364288
>I feel like I'm missing something - how could that ever stand up to scrutiny?
It never did stand up to scrutiny, hence why you only find such gibberish in places where ideas don't need to work in order to survive.

What are some other writers that have been right about absolutely everything?

Has any author ever been more right?

Is he the most important author of our time?

Not a single time in human history has socialism even half worked, every single time it has ended in utter disaster.

*is right about everything*

>>14915107
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The reason there will be never be any 'revolution of the proletariat' is because, thanks mainly to the free market, the 'proletariat' have seen their standard of living infused with a level of luxury and comfort that would have been unimaginable even to the ruling classes of Marx's era. Marxism was, is, and always will be, a nigger morality for resentful immature ungrateful retards who will never be happy as long as somebody else has more than them, no matter how that wealth was acquired.
All of you, grow the fuck up.

>>13880730
What a stupid cope. The idea that intellectuals are left-wing is complete and total bullshit. Social scientists (not a real science in practice) and literature majors, these are the types who are leftists, and as such it makes sense that their political views are based on conjecture and feelings as opposed to tangible evidence and data. Evolutionary psychologists and population geneticists, for example, acknowledge the difference between sexes and races respectively, which is very opposed to the leftist beliefs of the aforementioned groups. Only one supergroup has beliefs based on observable biological mechanisms, can you guess who it is? Can you guess which one projects meaning onto external items? While your "intellectuals" shout that is a systemic bias against minorities because of the result, the "mentally ill" adjust racial earnings to control for IQ discrepancies between races to find the cause when the gap disappears before their very eyes. Leftist economics is also a joke.

He is decades before his time.

Read his books.

I think he does.

>>11527162
thanks for you meaningful contribution, continental european, whos history is a clusterfuck of nazis, communists, imperialists, monarchists, theocracies, and every other horrific shithole governement that has ever existed.

>>11527248
>just academics get to vote
i cant imagine a worse system. picrelated

>>10675916
Now I do agree that critique can be applied to Mises, but I wouldn't say you should go so far as to ignore him. Simplicity isn't something negative per se.

The GOAT

>>7291412
Read "Intellectuals and Society"

>>7282779

>>7041908
You mean the argument of how western foreign policy is wrong for all the civilians it kills? While ignoring or denying whenever governments he supports do it?

>rightists
pls

>>5446948
>Most academics aren't very political though
Most academics aren't philosophers. They're social scientists, whatever that is, and they have hold on almost every department in education and force their ideologies through it.