Why would I take advice from a socialist?

I'll bite. Why not? I don't think you can generalize everyone who has taken advice from a socialist as unhappy, or even "most people". The term 'socialist' is so open ended, there's almost not even a conversation here. I'm not sure why the fact that Wallas was a socialist was even mentioned other than that's how he's introduced on Wikipedia. However to keep this conversation relevant and somewhat on point with encouraging creativity, I would strongly encourage you to learn from those who you think would not be the best sources. For example, say Wallas was a socialist along the lines of Marx or Engles, then I certainly wouldn't follow his ideas on the economic structure of the government. However I may subscribe to his thoughts on leadership or writing a book, after all Marx certainly go a lot of people to read his book.

Now obviously if someone is just in complete left field from your way of thinking then you can discount most of what they say and find someone you agree with more to hear their lines of thought. However I'm careful never to completely discount someone unless I have a very thorough reason to disagree with them in all regards. I hate to mention someone so vial, but in truth, if I was to study propaganda the master was Joseph Goebbels. If I am able to just focus on how he ran the Nazi propaganda machine, then there may be much to learn. But if all the other junk is so intertwined and I find that there's no way to use his methods without all the junk that was in his mind, then no matter how well his methods worked, they are useless to me.

A lot about brands has to do with people, and what has to do with people has to do with society and the way that a society/culture sees things. If you look at the wiki page on the guy, he wrote books about society (Social Judgement) and he wrote about the creative process, not just about Socialism. His inclusion in this course is therefore entirely proper. Your loss if you have been programmed to disqualify someone's unrelated work based on his political ideology. I would also like to point out that Socialism and Communism are not the same thing. This is a mistake I keep seeing over and over again.

Well, John Norris, while your claim is absolutely correct and I agree with the fact that this Graham Wallas is not even a designer, then why should you take advice from him. While that's true, it's equally true to the letter that above all he's a human being like you and me. No doubt in that. And you can never stop learning from other's lives, their stories, their faults, failures, successes and all that. Hope that's a lot of reasoning for a day. Happy learning

I can say that I have taken advice from many socialist, but I do believe that and 80/20 split 80 being capitalist society. Socialism is important for those who may not as equipped for life as some of us. What do you think?

Well, being a partisan is not a good thing. Although you are not a socialist you can learn a lot from the socialist theory, critical theory and socialist movements. To me, socialism is the best when it is the opposition. Without socialism we couldn't have had labour rights, working time rights and so on. after the industrial revolution peasants and farm laborers moved to cities, to factories from rural areas and started working up to 18 hours a day. Collective bargaining and worker protection laws came with socialist movement. I think this is one of the examples of historical importance of socialism in the history.

What I want to say is that you don't need to be a socialist to see the good parts of socialism. Maybe it has too many downsides but this doesn't necessaryly mean that we can learn nothing from socialism.

Socialists are capable of empathy. That's why you should take advice from them.

Who are these people you are referring to and why do you believe they represent some kind of majority?

Most people who have a problem with socialism are usually libertarian or conservative and are staunchly against the sort of regulations you mention Can Tural, so I doubt that sort of argument will sway them. Then again, no arguments seem capable of swaying such people -- their rigid fixation on their particular ideologies is tantamount to wearing blinders, and their own lack of empathy for people who aren't exactly like them at times seems borderline sociopathic.

I'll echo Andrew in this, and ask you why not?...post this somewhere else like reddit-these kind of debates are not what these forums are for.