Nelson Mandela and the Economics of Apartheid

12/13/2013 Peter G. Klein Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Tom Woods, guest host of "The Peter Schiff Show," interviews Peter Klein, who discusses how the anti-Apartheid movement, Mandela included, erroneously viewed Apartheid as a "capitalist" system, and turned to Marxism-Leninism as the only viable economic (and political) alternative.

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