It would have been great if he'd realized it earlier. However, I imagine that growing up during the great depression (especially under a series of kleptocrat d

It would have been great if he'd realized it earlier. However, I imagine that growing up during the great depression (especially under a series of kleptocrat dictators) changes one's perspectives on the relative merits of different economic systems. I'm currently reading a book on J. Robert Oppenheimer, and I've been struck by the seeming ubiquity of very left-wing views among brilliant young theoretical physicists in the 1930s. Combine the dire economic circumstances in the US at the time with the rise of the Nazis and little accurate knowledge of life under Stalin, and some very smart people came to conclusions that seem very misguided in retrospect.