However, Keynes's rabid anticommunism apparently did not prevent him from making friends with people in the Soviet embassy in London. According to Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein when he was attempting to emigrate to the Soviet Union went to Keynes in order to sound out his contacts with the embassy to smooth things out for him.
Jim F.
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the dark side of JMK Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:50:26 -0800 (PST)
You mean... like Churchill and Heidegger? How can that be? Keynes was on the side of Reason! You better not be trying to separate Keynes' politics from his economics or something.
----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
I'm with Keynes on a most of that. I admire lots about him. But he had a few problems too - he was a rabid anti-communist, aside from being an ruling class snob and bigot.
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