The great Geoff Harcourt joins me on the FT Letters page! next.ft.com/content/846131… http://t.co/tfQakad4BF—
Jo Michell (@jomicheII) October 16, 2015And now to find out what Joan Robinson actually thought of Marx. http://t.co/2Htt6zgDg6—
Jo Michell (@jomicheII) October 16, 2015
There are plenty, now on the left and the right, who in the past, and sometimes too recent past, dabbled in ideologies that did not include an unwavering commitment to democratic government, the rule of law, and peaceful change through the ballot box.
Ex-communists: they are allowed back into polite society and into left-wing political parties often without have to admit and openly repent for being the fools that they were. Some of these ex-communists took a long time and were well past their immature youth to see the foolishness of their ways.
The forgiveness for ex-communists is odd as Hayek in the Road to Serfdom challenged the general view among British academics that fascism was a capitalist reaction against socialism, instead arguing that fascism and socialism had common roots in central economic planning and the power of the state over the individual.
The inter-war communists hated the Fascists because…
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