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Post on Keynes

 Posted here: http://prospect.org/article/sex-economics-and-austerity#comment-20506

It is as interesting that someone should try to defend Keynes via his homosexuality as that one should attack him.

Reality is simple: you cannot spend more money than you take in forever.  You cannot borrow money forever.  You cannot borrow or spend your way to prosperity.  We borrow over $1 trillion dollars a year, and interest ALONE on our national debt will soon exceed the Pentagon’s budget.  These are not “right wing” speculations.  They are facts,  Period.

Further, the more important aspect of Keynes personality we need to look at is his lifelong association with radicals like Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and most ominously George Bernard Shaw, who was one of the first people he wrote when completed his masterpiece of BS, the “General Theory”.

Read the last chapter of that book.  What is unmistakeable even for an average mind is that he was Fascist, and I mean that in a technical sense.  He wanted potential government control over all aspects of economic life, with large, supportive corporations to be left alone as long as they toed the line.  He praised in his lifetime the economic policies of Adolph Hitler.  He in turn was praised by Benito Mussollini–the former Communist who came up with the name “Fascism”, kids–who called Keynes ideas “pure fascism”.  Yes, that is a quote.

Why were he and his Russian wife allowed to travel the Soviet Union without supervision?  Because they were regarded as ideologically safe.  George Bernard Shaw praised both Nazism and Communism, and there is no reason to believe Keynes did not share his fundamentally elitist and amoral worldview.  Keynes simply thought Fascism was more intelligent.

People like you are ruining this world by stupidity, by allowing vicious and evil human beings to continue their quest to destroy all semblances of a truly Liberal political order, and all traces of anything approaching honest morality.