Thomas sowell appreciation thread [poll Inside]

[BaggerofTea]

He says himself ""I prefer not to have labels, but I suspect that 'libertarian' would suit me better than many others, although I disagree with the libertarian movement on a number of things"
and what is this private tyranny you speak of?

syndicalism sounds like some newly discovered venereal disease...adding the Anarcho to it doesnt help..from what ive read its basically labor union socialism..they probably had to add the Anarcho part cos everybody could see where syndicalism itself was headed

Every couple of decades some intellectual academic douchebag (cough* chomsky ) develops some new flavor of marxism in their heads and says "ive solved the problem"
"this is the new and improved starvation free socialism" but it never works out that way...collectivism almost always fails ..its human nature

God help the nation that is foolish enough to try your *anarcho syndicalism*...theyll wish it was just a venereal disease


Read that statement then google Hong kong and N korea ...economic success is directly related to economic freedom which is linked to personal freedom

imma let the legend milton friedman tell u why

Ahhh Chomsky bashing by an an cap.

Typical LMAO.

Private tyranny is the result of State tyranny being off shored to the private owners of the means do production. Think feudalism.


Anarcho syndicalism has been around much longer than Chomsky. See Proudhon and Lagardelle.

You are under the rather foolish notion that we have much economic freedom to begin with.

Contrary to your nonsense an cap beliefs. The less power owners of production are, the more economic freedom everyone else has

 

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Ahhh Chomsky bashing by an an cap.

Typical LMAO.

i call it like i see it

Private tyranny is the result of State tyranny being off shored to the private owners of the means do production. Think feudalism.


Anarcho syndicalism has been around much longer than Chomsky. See Proudhon and Lagardelle.

Feudalism actually had more in common with socialism like ive pointed out several times..central planning,no profit,no economic mobility...just replace the king and lords with a "socialist peoples party committee" and you have almost the same thing

You are under the rather foolish notion that we have much economic freedom to begin with.

Nah i harbor no illusions ...its clear that the mechanisms of the state are in the control of a small group of uber wealthy elites but the central planning is minimal so yes this little bit of freedom is compared to feudalism.

Contrary to your nonsense an cap beliefs. The less power owners of production are, the more economic freedom everyone else has

TBH Im not sure what i am exactly..im only certain i believe in individual rights and voluntarism

but im also practical enough to understand we are born domesticated animals...most of us cannot handle the transition from tax factory farm to pure freedom especially collectivists like you ....
setting you free is like releasing a domestic goat into the wilderness it will be dead in 48 hours...it cannot think and act like a free mountain goat..same animal different mentality.

 

[CHL]

Alright, I'll check him out thanks guys

@ADevilYouKhow they're corrupting Joe

 

[Nomad1]

 

[SirReginald]

@ADevilYouKhow they're corrupting Joe

I'm not getting corrupted I just like hearing different points of views.

 

[.r.]

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[BaggerofTea]

i call it like i see it

You arent calling shyt

Feudalism actually had more in common with socialism like ive pointed out several times..central planning,no profit,no economic mobility...just replace the king and lords with a "socialist peoples party committee" and you have almost the same thing

Do you get tired of making shyt up? Feudalism is the epitome of the libertarian capitalist state. The barons (or corporations) are the centralized institutions who people are enslaved to. No economic mobility because if you have no control over the means of production you have no way of going anywhere.

Nah i harbor no illusions ...its clear that the mechanisms of the state are in the control of a small group of uber wealthy elites but the central planning is minimal so yes this little bit of freedom is compared to feudalism.

Under a libertarian capitalist state, central planning is privatized, its still central planning at the end of the day. The owners of the means of production will have all the say. Heck we live in a libertarian capitalist state now

TBH Im not sure what i am exactly..im only certain i believe in individual rights and voluntarism

Believe in individual rights yet advocate for private tyranny brehs

but im also practical enough to understand we are born domesticated animals...most of us cannot handle the transition from tax factory farm to pure freedom especially collectivists like you ....
setting you free is like releasing a domestic goat into the wilderness it will be dead in 48 hours...it cannot think and act like a free mountain goat..same animal different mentality

Wrong, most early civilizations functioned quite well as syndicalist collectives.

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[EndDomination]

This thread is rather insufferable.
Thomas Sowell is an idiot. Aligning your brain dead viewpoints with old-ass Friedman-esque economics basics with a healthy dose of Randian cynicism does not a genius make.
He doesn't say anything new or profound. He's also as blind to racism as Ben Carson. Has he written anything worth reading?

 

[JahFocus CS]

Black Conservatives

 

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@ADevilYouKhow they're corrupting Joe

 

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This thread is rather insufferable.
Thomas Sowell is an idiot. Aligning your brain dead viewpoints with old-ass Friedman-esque economics basics with a healthy dose of Randian cynicism does not a genius make.

He was one of the few black critics of the great society programs in the 60s ...that wasn't a very popular position as you can imagine back then

He's also as blind to racism as Ben Carson. Has he written anything worth reading?

Really? So any negro who doesnt blame "white supremacy" for every little thing is blind to racism.... who needs empirical evidence or facts when we can all follow the subjective pre approved narrative on race .

 

[King Kreole]

I like Sowell. I may not agree with everything he says, but his arguments are refreshing and well researched. More importantly, he is emblematic of a time when ideological debates were enlightening. Now it's all base appeals to emotion and tribalism. He's one of the last conservative intellectuals.

 

[CHL]

I'm not getting corrupted I just like hearing different points of views.

Let me know when you're finished with Mein Kampf

 

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Let me know when you're finished with Mein Kampf

I would actually recommend it because he will recognize the strong socialist overtones in hitlers twisted philosophy ...have you read it?

 

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Do you get tired of making shyt up? Feudalism is the epitome of the libertarian capitalist state. The barons (or corporations) are the centralized institutions who people are enslaved to. No economic mobility because if you have no control over the means of production you have no way of going anywhere.

You cant call something capitalism without showing profit....thats like saying a desert is the beach because it has sand too...nah its water that makes the beach as well

Feudalism had central planning,the farmers worked the land but didnt own it,their produce was taken and "redistributed" by the ruling party,there were price controls ,wage controls,everybody had to get permission to do any business..the king ruled on behalf of "the people"..sound familiar??

Under a libertarian capitalist state, central planning is privatized, its still central planning at the end of the day. The owners of the means of production will have all the say. Heck we live in a libertarian capitalist state now

Ummm NO...Libertarians oppose central banking BECAUSE it IS central planning...we actually live in a borderline fascistic corporatist republic with a mixed market.

Believe in individual rights yet advocate for private tyranny brehs

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Again what is "private tyranny"....sounds oxymoronic...tyranny is a team sport because it needs an army ...theres state tyranny,monarchical tyranny and tyranny of the masses (socialism gone wild)

Wrong, most early civilizations functioned quite well as syndicalist collectives.

gimme some examples...all the early civilizations ive read about were nearly all Oligarchies and Feudal monarchies with varying degrees of participation
with the exceptions of a few like Rome which was a republic at first and Greece which had representative democracy for a while then fell back into oligarchy