Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Angela:
>jim wrote:
>
>> Then again I don't recall ever seeing anything to indicate
>> that Henry has any sympthies with Naziism as such either.
>
>his question, put a number of times, was 'why was germany in the 1930s such
>an economic success?'   leaving aside the criterion of "success" (which
>remains the task of endless citations of kalecki it seems to even begin to
>unsettle), he continued to insist that the racism of germany in the 1940s
>was epiphenomenl (his word for this was 'ideological') and separable from
>the assumptions and programme of national socialist economic policies.  in
>short, that the attainment of full employment had nothing to do with -- and
>was not premised on -- the concentration camps, the destruction of the
>workers' councils.  he was trying to find a way -- as are others here -- of
>asserting a racist economics stripped of its 'ideological' (or historical)
>'baggage'.   to find a way of saying 'I want to have the economy of nazi
>germany, but I'm not a racist.'   (i'd go further than doug and say that
>the distinction HKL was looking for was not really between economics and
>politics, but rather that between the stats on employment and production
>levels, ot1h, and otoh, the economic *and* political processes that made
>such stats possible.)

Is your thesis that Keynes and all Keynesians are national socialists and
therefore racists?

Yoshie