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To: pissant

Bertolt Brecht's play is about a Chicago gangster who rises to great power. The crime lord Arturo Ui is a metaphor for Hitler.
Gangster Government = Fascism.

12 posted on 03/07/2011 7:37:01 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

Recently some hotshot on Bloomberg said the markets love ‘totalatarianism’.
In doing research, seems Keynes IS on the side of statism.

“Guess where we would place Keynes on this scale of evaluation – servile scribbler or a thorn in the side of autocrats? It’s not even necessary to say it – after all, he said himself that his work is best suited to a totalitarian system (the passage in the German version of the foreword reads: ‘Die Theorie […] kann viel leichter den Verhältnissen eines totalen Staates angepasst werden, [...]’ – which literally translated means, ‘The theory […] can be better adapted to the conditions of the Total State, etc.’).

Unless one is pining for the ‘Total State’ one should perhaps consider forgoing the Keynesian recipes. Just saying. “-Pater

http://www.acting-man.com/?p=6583


16 posted on 03/07/2011 7:47:17 PM PST by griswold3 (The wolves are howling)
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