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

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Angela:
>> Is your thesis that Keynes and all Keynesians are national socialists
>> and therefore racists?
>
>if you'd read the post before you asked this question, you would not be
>asking this particular question.   the short answer: the question of
>whether anyone is personally racist is redundant -- or should be.

Perhaps this conversation doesn't make sense any more due to delay, but I
only asked the above question because a question was raised in this thread
at the level of whether Henry Liu is a racist or a Nazi sympathizer or
something like that due to his remarks on Nazi economic policy, as you can
see in the following context:


>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:52:34 -0500
>Subject: Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc)
>X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0,2-53
>From: James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
>
>On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 15:17:13 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>writes:
>>Charles Brown wrote:
>>
>>>Sort of like Keynes , wasn't it ?
>>
>>Yes and no. Keynes wrote a preface to the German edition of the
>>General Theory that praised Nazi economic policy. But, though Keynes
>>shared the anti-Semitism of the British upper class, he wasn't at
>>heart a Nazi.
>
>Well, I don't think that anybody ever said that Keynes was a
>Nazi.  Then again I don't recall ever seeing anything to indicate
>that Henry has any sympthies with Naziism as such either.

My question concerned whether you and Doug weren't suggesting that while
Henry's political sympathy is suspect, Keynes is above suspicion.

Yoshie