Is John Maynard Keynes the Father of Communism?

Question

Is John Maynard Keynes the Father of Communism?

Answer 1

No. It's Karl Marx I would have thought!

Answer 2

why made you think that keynes is a communist? no it is karl marx. keynes is an economist and probably a capitalist.

Answer 3

No.

Karl Marx was the father of Communism.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) is best known not as a philosopher but as a revolutionary communist, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. It is hard to think of many who have had as much influence in the creation of the modern world. Trained as a philosopher, Marx turned away from philosophy in his mid-twenties, towards economics and politics. However, in addition to his overtly philosophical early work, his later writings have many points of contact with contemporary philosophical debates, especially in the philosophy of history and the social sciences, and in moral and political philosophy. Historical materialism — Marx's theory of history — is centered around the idea that forms of society rise and fall as they further and then impede the development of human productive power. Marx sees the historical process as proceeding through a necessary series of modes of production, culminating in communism. Marx's economic analysis of capitalism is based on his version of the labour theory of value, and includes the analysis of capitalist profit as the extraction of surplus value from the exploited proletariat. The analysis of history and economics come together in Marx's prediction of the inevitable economic breakdown of capitalism, to be replaced by communism. However Marx refused to speculate in detail about the nature of communism, arguing that it would arise through historical processes, and was not the realisation of a pre-determined moral ideal.

John Maynard Keynes,  (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. He is one of the fathers of modern theoretical macroeconomics.

Answer 4

no. Karl Marx is. keynes is an economist.

Answer 5

Karl Marx was the father of Communism. Whoever told you that Keynes was the father of Communism probably works for fox News. There are conservatives who love to score debate points by comparing Keynes to Marx, but the two are very much different from each other. Keynes was a capitalist who dared to believe that the Great Depression could have been prevented/ameliorated by government intervention, and that governments can have positive effects on the economy. Keynesianism was the dominant CAPITALIST economic model from the 1930s until about 1980.  In the 1970s, neoconservative economists began arguing that Keynesian ecoonmic policies were responsible for the US's poor economic performance in the 1970s - an claim that has become very popular and widely accepted, but ,I believe, is very wrong. Funny how America was doing great under a Keynesian rubric during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. There's something fuzzy about the logic. And they call Liberals fuzzy-headed.