Equity vs. Equality By Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell mentions the word gulag in the video below.  He is referring to the forced labour camps of the Soviet Union that existed between the 1920s to 1953.  People who were sent there either because they opposed the tyranny of the Soviet Union or because they were criminals.  The purpose of these camps was to punish but also to reform people.  The belief was that criminals could be reformed into being good citizens through hard work and reeducation.  18 million people passed through the work camps and of those 1.6 million died.  Thomas Sowell says that the people who devoted themselves to the cause of Communism didn't do so because they wanted gulags, "they did it because they were seeking social justice but what actually happened shows some of the costs and some of the dangers of that."