{"id":31963,"date":"2017-02-28T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31963"},"modified":"2017-06-24T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T15:36:59","slug":"qotd-mr-keynes-excellent-little-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/02\/28\/qotd-mr-keynes-excellent-little-book\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Mr. Keynes&#8217; excellent little book&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Interestingly, Mussolini found much of John Maynard Keynes\u2019s economic theories consistent with fascism, writing: \u201cFascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter\u2019s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes\u2019 excellent little book, <em>The End of Laissez-Faire<\/em> (l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the worldwide Great Depression, Mussolini became more vocal in his claims that fascism explicitly rejected the capitalist elements of economic individualism and laissez-faire liberalism. In his \u201cDoctrine of Fascism,\u201d Mussolini wrote: \u201cThe Fascist conception of life accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with the State. . . . Fascism reasserts the rights of the state. If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.\u201d In his 1928 autobiography, Mussolini made clear his dislike for liberal capitalism: \u201cThe citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence K. Samuels, <em>The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism<\/em>, quoted by Perry de Havilland in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2015\/07\/mussolini-admired-mr-keynes-excellent-little-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mussolini admired &#8216;Mr. Keynes&#8217; excellent little book'&#8221; at <em>Samizdata<\/em><\/a>, 2015-07-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly, Mussolini found much of John Maynard Keynes\u2019s economic theories consistent with fascism, writing: \u201cFascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter\u2019s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes\u2019 excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,25,62,7,339,41],"tags":[457,1135],"class_list":["post-31963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-economics","category-europe","category-history","category-italy","category-quotations","tag-fascism","tag-mussolini"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8jx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31964,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31963\/revisions\/31964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}