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https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebartlett/2004/01/16/hitler-and-keynes-n1357780
>In my view, such criticism is completely wrong. Keynes was very anticommunist. "Red Russia holds too much which is detestable," he wrote in 1925. "I am not ready for a creed which does not care how much it destroys the liberty and security of daily life, which uses deliberately the weapons of persecution, destruction and international strife."
>Keynes developed his theories in the 1930s precisely in order to save capitalism. He understood that it could not long survive the mass unemployment of the Great Depression. His goal was to preserve what was good about capitalism, while saving it from those who would destroy it completely.
>Said Keynes in "The General Theory," "The authoritarian state systems of today seem to solve the problem of unemployment at the expense of efficiency and of freedom. … But it may be possible by a right analysis of the problem to cure the disease whilst preserving efficiency and freedom."
>That Keynes' theories were fundamentally anti-socialist can perhaps best be demonstrated by the way communists viewed his work. This can be found in the 1969 book, "An Analysis of Soviet Views on John Maynard Keynes" by Carl Turner. He shows that leaders of the old Soviet Union saw Keynes as one of their greatest enemies precisely because he saved capitalism from collapsing into socialism, as Karl Marx had predicted would happen.
