>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 12/23/99 01:08AM >>>
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?
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CB: I think we should be clear here. CAPITALISM is racist to the core, always has been. There is no development of any capitalism that is not dependent upon holocaustic racism as a necessary premise. Slavery and colonialism were the chief momenta of the primitive accumulation of all of capitalism, not just that in one or the other country. So, as Yoshie says Keynesians', neo-classicists', classicists' , all economistic praises for a capitalist economy anywhere, anytime carry praises for a total package which includes horrendous racism of some type. The whole U.S. economy is premised on genocide against the indigenous peoples ,the genocidal enslavement of Africans and the genocidal war on Viet Nam, equal in criminality with Nazism. So, any praise of the current U.S. boom implies praise of racism equal to that of Nazi Germany.
CB