On Jan 29, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Socialismorbarbarism wrote: " Also, to the extent that Keynes revealed his
> politics, it was a creepy sort of presumed-benevolent technocratic elitism,
> so no real contradiction there."
>
> That whole social milieu (I'm not sure how to label it) in which Keynes
> existed, the Bloomsbury group (nor Wollf I believe), Eliot, various others,
> were a bit creepy -- not only in their discreet admiration for Hitler &
> Mussolini but in their slightly less discreet anti-semitis.
Keynes: “I do not mean that Russian Communism alters, or even seeks to alter, human nature, that it makes Jews less avaricious or Russians less extravagant than they were before.”