[Rocky]

I read Sowell’s autobiography but somehow missed the fact that he was a communist as a young man.

[jazusamo]

I wasn’t aware of that either. He was 21 when he was drafted and went into the Marines. Following that were his college years so he must be referring to them. He went to Howard, Harvard, Columbia and U of Chicago.

[Billthedrill]

One of Sowell's very best books is Marxism, written from the point of view of a man who studied it enough to understand it and eventually to reject it. It's dry, dispassionate, and descriptive. He doesn't even refute anything until the last chapter. Great stuff.