I don’t think that Dr. Sowell “was a Marxist” as much as that he was a student of Marxism, in his graduate-student years. He realized, being a great mind, that it was an erroneous theory.
He mentioned in his memoir that when he was teaching a graduate seminar in Marxist thought, well on in his career, students observed that they could not deduce his personal opinions from the courses. He told them that this was as it should be, since the course was not about him, but about “Marxist thought” as it exists, written, in history.
” I don’t think that Dr. Sowell “was a Marxist” as much as that he was a student of Marxism, in his graduate-student years. He realized, being a great mind, that it was an erroneous theory.”
I would tend to agree with this. Marxism is intellectually contemptible.