How to Easily Debunk Marxism
"The most spectacularly successful political doctrine ... in the twentieth century was Marxism, based on the implicit presumption that differences in wealth were due to capitalists growing rich by keeping the workers poor, through 'exploitation.'" ---Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell Peter: Now what was wrong with that assumption? Tom: Well it sounded good like so many others, but uh- It simply was never put to any test. Now, the test I suggest there is a simple one, but it is a test. And if it's true that the rich are rich because they're keeping the poor poor, then in a country with lots of billionaires you'd correspondingly have great amounts of poor people. But if you compare the actual data, there are more billionaires in the United States than in Africa and the middle east put together. And yet the standard of living of the poor in the United States is higher than that of the people in Africa and the middle east. So by that simple standard, it just doesn't hold up. ---Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
