On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:06 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> "an account from the sectarian press"
>
> The International Council Correspondence, under its editor Paul
> Mattick, wasn't sectarian, but a far-sighted critique of the
> militarist dynamic of Keynes-style national recovery plans.
Apologies. I tried reading Mattick's book Marx and Keynes once, and found it absolutely pointless. There's nothing necessarily militaristic about Keynes or Keynesianism - it's deep in the bourgeois state. Spending on weapons is a lot more acceptable to the ruling class than spending on public housing. That's not Keynes's fault. (Nor is it Mattick Sr.'s fault that I think his son is a jackass.)
In any case, it looks like Mattick's report on the CCC mutiny was, at least, highly tendentious. That's something you often find in the sectarian press, even if it's rude and inappropriate to call Mattick that.
Doug