Timework Web wrote:
> I would say that most people -who consider themselves Marxists- are closet
> Keynesians.
Ellen Wood uses the phrase for those who had ceased to designate
themselves as marxist (on the basis that socialism had failed). That is,
she is not really speaking of economists, marxist or otherwise, but
of those who had grown up in a promising culture and fought for that
culture to be in practice what it promised to be. When that fight
failed, they turned against socialism and marxism. So the argument
does not concern those who call themselves marxists *now* (closet
keynesians or not) but those who *did* call themselves marxists
(closet-keynsians) and now are do not.
The question of what current (self-declared) marxists are or are
not does not enter one way or the other into Wood's argument.
And also, I think what is concerned here is not economic theory
so much as political practice.
Your point may or may not be correct, but it does not touch
on the topics raised by Wood.
Carrol
