I don't recall what Henry said about admiring Hitler's economic policy. Like Lynn Turgeon, I was impressed with Silverman, Dan P. 1997. Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press). The book suggests that, if you filter out the racist elements, Hitler's economic policy were, in effect, a clearer version of the New Deal.
Doug Henwood wrote:
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> And I was also referring to a very elitist view of the world that
> underpins the strong state - Keynes's well-born technocrats on the
> National Investment Board, or HCKL's friends in the Chinese CP,
> planning on behalf of the masses.
>
> Keynes at least had the excuse of writing in 1936 or 1937, when he
> said kind things about Nazi economic policy. For a self-identified
> Marxist writing in 1999, it's a little more troubling.
>
> Doug
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