by Ozodi Osuji
It is not my business to give anyone advice on intellectual matters. Be that as it may, you seem to see only the negative in the writings of Karl Marx and his cohorts. If that is the case, folks could conclude that either you are uneducated or a stooge of dying capitalism. I suggest that you read Karl Marx, not just what you heard about him, but his original works, such as Das Kapital, volumes one and two.
It was socialism that saved America during the 1930s depression, in the form of Roosevelt’s New Deal Politics and, in general, the writings of John Maynard Keynes.
I am sure that you know that the US GDP is about $25 trillion and its debt is about $38 trillion, meaning that it is living on borrowed money. If Capitalism is the heaven its advocates, such as Milton Friedman, made of it, one would not see the USA borrowing as much as it is doing. The country will go bankrupt by the time Donald Trump is done with it. He is borrowing and spending like a drunken sailor (he borrows to pay the Icemen rampaging through American cities).
I suggest you leave Thomas Sowell alone, for a while anyway; I actually know him as a person and do not believe that he is even above average in intelligence; he is a low-IQ black man making noise on a subject, economics and black matters, that he has a poor grasp of.
You seem relatively intelligent, so use your own mind to figure out the political economy you believe suits a developing continent like Africa.
As you have pointed out, ab nauseum, Western liberalism and excessive individualism have issues (and I have addressed those in several books and articles, but they are not all bad).
Some of the best-governed countries in the world are the Nordic and Scandinavian countries, such as Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. They have publicly paid health care for all and publicly paid education through universities and vocational schools. Yet their economies are doing better than those of the USA.
In the USA, apparently the capitalist heaven, one medical emergency and people sell their houses to pay the medical bills; the public schools are so bad that kids hardly read or write and at college have to take remedial courses (the USA has to import technicians from India, Korea and other Asians countries and import real scientists from Western Europe, places where the public finance education).
We do not live in a world of good or bad, black or white, but a world that mixes the pair of opposites, a world of ambiguity, a world that seems to need some capitalism to motivate people to work hard and some socialism to help those who do not compete optimally, maybe due to low IQ, such as black people.
The average Black American’s IQ is 85, the average white person’s IQ is 100, the average Asians IQ is 115 (these are reflected in their scores on the SAT…blacks average score on the SAT is 850, white is 1150, and Asians average score on the SAT is 1250…out of a total of 1600 points). If you go by these scores, fewer than 1% of black Americans could enter America’s top 25 universities.
The average IQ of Africans is 73; they score almost like morons since an IQ of 70 is the beginning of mental retardation.
The point is that what makes Africa perpetually underdeveloped and poorly managed is probably the people’s low intelligence and tendency to corruption and thievery, rather than the socialism and liberalism you harp on. James Watson, the guy who, with Francis Crick, discovered DNA, said that Africa is unable to govern itself well due to inherited low intelligence. Think about that view.
Good luck.
Ozodi Osuji
- February 10, 2026
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