Sunday, November 21, 2010

So-well put!

"Running left-wing movements has always been the prerogative of spoiled rich kids. This pattern goes all the way back to the days when an over-indulged and affluent young man named Karl Marx combined with another over-indulged youth from a wealthy family named Friedrich Engels to create the Communist ideology."

Thomas Sowell in his 1993 book, Is Reality Optional (Hoover Institution, p. 81):

Birdie.