Michael Roberts is correct that Keynes was no radical. Indeed, openly expressed disdain for the working class. He seems puzzled that someone like Joan Robinson seemed in his view to be unaware of that. But given that Joan Robinson was a member of Keynes's inner circle, his Circus, that seems most unlikely. He seems unaware of the fact that Joan Robinson was also a great admirer of Michal Kalecki, who was a professed Marxist, and who, as Robinson liked to point out, had developed a macroeconomic analysis that was very similar to Keynes's prior to Keynes's own publication of his *General Theory.* Indeed, Robinson held that Kalecki's treatment of the subject was clearer and more lucid than Keynes's own version of it. In all of his discussion of both Robinson and Kalecki he doesn't draw a connection between the two economists, nor does he make any mention of Paul Sweezy, an avowed Marxist, who was influenced by both Robinson and Kalecki, as well as by Keynes. To be sure, Sweezy in turn was criticized by other Marxists for this. The senior Paul Mattick was probably one of the most notable Marxist critics of Sweezy. A brief critique of Sweezy and Baran's *Monopoly Capital* can be found here ( https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1966/monopoly-capital.htm ) and in his book *Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy. ( https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm )* Michael Roberts' own critique of the post-Keynesians seems to me to echo some Paul Mattick's arguments. And in contrast with both Mattick and Roberts, Paul Sweezy could be insistent on the radicalism of some of the Keynesians as he was in this piece ( https://mronline.org/2010/06/11/about-keynes-and-keynesians/ ).
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