Former Marxist Thomas Sowell tells Mark Levin how ‘systemic racism’ isn’t backed by facts

Monday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin interviewed economist and Hoover Institution senior fellow Dr. Thomas Sowell, author of the new book, “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” After discussing the benefits of charter schools as described in his book, Levin asked Sowell about his youthful embrace of Marxism and why leftist ideology cannot stand up to facts.

“The Left has the better vision; it’s only when you turn from the vision to facts that suddenly everything collapses like a house of cards,” Sowell said.

“I think many, if not most, of the people in the movement that created the Soviet Union were probably idealists wanting a better world. They had no idea what kind of world they were in fact creating,” he added.