left conservatism

[Rakesh Bhandari]

James H's definition of left conservatism sounds like the following
definition of collectivism provided by Robert Skidelsky in The Road from
Serfdom: "Collectivism was an intellectual construction...largely created
by a new class of social philosophers, engineers and scientists, often
made up of marginal academics, who saw themselves as a rational directing
elite 'above class'". p.93
Now while this champion of Keynes seems to have been bitten by Hayek's
Counter-revolution of Science, it is interesting that the best and most
radical of the post-Keynesians like William Darity, Jr have called
attention to the implicit elitism and conservatism in the Keynesian 
left. 
best, rakesh