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- Jul 1, 2026
In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work. He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in....
SummaryIn 1825, wealthy industrialist Robert Owen purchased an entire Indiana town to create a socialist utopia where private property was eliminated and everyone earned equally. Despite ideal conditions and educated settlers, New Harmony collapsed within two years because workers lacked incentive to produce when rewards were equal regardless of effort, buildings decayed without individual ownership, and the community fractured under demands for conformity.10 tweets1 min read - Jun 19, 2026
In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid. Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia. Almost nob...
SummaryThe 1984-1985 Ethiopian famine that sparked Live Aid and "We Are the World" was framed as a natural disaster, but was actually engineered by the Marxist-Leninist Derg regime through forced collectivization, grain seizures, and deliberate starvation of rebel regions—with aid money partly diverted to a deadly resettlement program that killed 50,000-100,000 people.12 tweets1 min read - Mar 4, 2026
Noam Chomsky defended the Khmer Rouge while they were killing 25% of Cambodia's population. He kept his position at MIT. His reputation kept growing. His books kept selling. Thomas Sowell predicted...
SummaryThe thread argues that intellectuals like Noam Chomsky faced no professional consequences for defending the Khmer Rouge during Cambodia's genocide, while figures like Ayn Rand who never inspired atrocities remain academically marginalized. Thomas Sowell's observation that intellectuals lack accountability mechanisms—unlike doctors or engineers—explains why ideologies responsible for mass deaths (Marxism) retain academic respectability while capitalism's defenders are dismissed.10 tweets1 min read - Dec 12, 2025
In 1968, historian Robert Conquest published research showing Stalin killed millions. Western intellectuals called him a propagandist. A Cold War hack. A CIA plant. Then the USSR collapsed. The arch...
SummaryHistorian Robert Conquest documented Stalin's atrocities in the 1960s-80s with millions of deaths, but Western academics dismissed him as a Cold War propagandist until Soviet archives opened after 1991 and proved his estimates were accurate or even conservative. The episode reveals how institutional consensus can systematically reject evidence that contradicts dominant ideological narratives.14 tweets2 min read - Apr 22, 2025
Thomas Sowell was once a committed Marxist. Even after Harvard. Even after Milton Friedman. So what changed his mind? It wasn’t a book. It was working in government. Here’s the story 🧵
SummaryThomas Sowell transitioned from being a committed Marxist to a classical liberal after working in government and discovering that policy decisions are driven by institutional incentives rather than evidence or truth. His pivotal moment came at the Department of Labor when colleagues resisted investigating whether minimum wage laws were causing Puerto Rican unemployment, revealing that government agencies prioritize self-preservation over data-driven policy.11 tweets1 min read