"The West never came close to proletarian revolution. The Left likes to believe that it did. They like to argue that 'Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism from itself'. This is another way of saying that John Maynard Keynes saved capitalism from itself. Both arguments are incorrect. Roosevelt and Keynes met only once. Roosevelt correctly assessed Keynes as a mathematician, not an economist. This was true. Keynes got his degree in mathematics, not economics. Roosevelt was the source of what we call Keynesianism, 1933-36, not Keynes, whose General Theory appeared in 1936. But scholars like to believe that academic arguments shape the world. They don't. They conform what has already begun to take root in the thinking and practices of the general public. When men decided that "thou shalt not steal" means "thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote," the Keynesian worldview was born. This view is dominant today. Marxism is dead. So is . To win this battle, we must persuade men that "" means this: it is immoral to steal, with or without majority vote. This has nothing to do with the mode of production."
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"Cultural Marxism Is an Oxymoron" (1 July 2014), Gary North.
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Gary North (economist)
Gary Kilgore North (February 11, 1942 – February 24, 2022) was an American economic historian, and Christian Reconstructionist theorist. North has authored or coauthored over fifty books on topics including Christian theology, economics, and history. He was an Associated Scholar of the .
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