On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:57 AM, raghu wrote: >> Anyway this just raises the larger question which I have never really >> understood: what was the reason for Keynes' animosity to Marx? > > Class. Some choice quotes from Keynes on the topic: > > "How can I accept a doctrine which sets up as its bible...an obsolete > economic textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but > without interest or application for the modern world? How can I adopt a creed > which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above > the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the > quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement? Even if > we need a religion how can we find it in the turbid rubbish of the Red > bookshops? It is hard for an educated, decent, intelligent son of western > Europe to find his ideals here, unless he has first suffered some strange and > horrid process of conversion which has changed all his values." > > "I do not mean that Russian Communism alters, or even seeks to alter, human > nature, that it makes Jews less avaricious or Russians less extravagant than > they were before." > > "the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie" > > "[Marx wanted to] organize the myriad Lilliputians and arm them with poisoned > arrows.... [Communism] enormously overestimates the significance of the > economic problem. If you leave that to me, I will look after it."
Thanks. That is very enlightening. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
