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[[Communist Party]] General Secretary [[William Z. Foster]] commented, "The Nazi fascists were especially enthusiastic supporters of Keynes."<ref>William Z. Foster, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=0AdnAAAAMAAJ Outline Political History of the Americas]'' (International Publishers, 1951), p. 597.</ref> As Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter observed, in Nazi Germany, "A work like Keynes’ ''General Theory'' could have appeared unmolested&mdash;and did."<ref>Joseph A. Schumpeter, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=pl4DABZfGREC History of Economic Analysis]'' (Routledge, 2006) ISBN 1134838700, p. 1156</ref> In the introduction to the 1936 German edition of his treatise, Keynes himself suggested that the total state that the National Socialists were then building was perfectly suited for the implementation of his investment schemes:  

[[Communist Party]] General Secretary [[William Z. Foster]] commented, "The Nazi fascists were especially enthusiastic supporters of Keynes."<ref>William Z. Foster, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=0AdnAAAAMAAJ Outline Political History of the Americas]'' (International Publishers, 1951), p. 597.</ref> As Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter observed, in Nazi Germany, "A work like Keynes’ ''General Theory'' could have appeared unmolested&mdash;and did."<ref>Joseph A. Schumpeter, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=pl4DABZfGREC History of Economic Analysis]'' (Routledge, 2006) ISBN 1134838700, p. 1156</ref> In the introduction to the 1936 German edition of his treatise, Keynes himself suggested that the total state that the National Socialists were then building was perfectly suited for the implementation of his investment schemes:  

{{cquote|The theory of aggregate production that is the goal of the following book can be much more easily applied to the conditions of a totalitarian state than the theory of production and distribution of a given output turned out under the conditions of free competition and a considerable degree of ''laissez-faire''.<ref>Translation in Henry Hazlitt, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HfGxAAAAIAAJ The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies]'' (Van Nostrand, 1959), p. 277 (Original: "Trotzdem kann die Theorie der Produktion als Ganzes, die den Zweck des folgenden Buches bildet, viel leichter den Verhältnissen eines totalen Staates angepaßt werden als die Theorie der Erzeugung und Verteilung einer gegebenen, unter Bedingungen des freien Wettbewerbes und eines großen Maßes von ''laissez-faire'' erstellten Produktion." John Maynard Keynes, ''Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes'' [Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1936], p. ix)</ref>}}

{{cquote|The theory of aggregate production that is the goal of the following book can be much more easily applied to the conditions of a totalitarian state than the theory of production and distribution of a given output turned out under the conditions of free competition and a considerable degree of ''laissez-faire''.<ref>Translation in Henry Hazlitt, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=HfGxAAAAIAAJ The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies]'' (Van Nostrand, 1959), p. 277 (Original: "Trotzdem kann die Theorie der Produktion als Ganzes, die den Zweck des folgenden Buches bildet, viel leichter den Verhältnissen eines totalen Staates angepaßt werden als die Theorie der Erzeugung und Verteilung einer gegebenen, unter Bedingungen des freien Wettbewerbes und eines großen Maßes von ''laissez-faire'' erstellten Produktion." John Maynard Keynes, ''Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes'' [Berlin: Duncker & Humbolt, 1936], p. ix)</ref>}}

Moreover, Keynes was at least an ambivalent anti-Semite. He called Albert Einstein "a naughty Jew boy... that kind of Jew... who have not sublimated immortality into compound interest." This he contrasted with

Moreover, Keynes was at least an ambivalent anti-Semite. He called Albert Einstein "a naughty Jew boy... that kind of Jew... who have not sublimated immortality into compound interest." This he contrasted with

{{cquote|the other kind of Jews, the ones who are... serving devils, with small horns, pitch forks, and oily tails. It is not agreeable to see civilization so under the ugly thumbs of its impure Jews who have all the money and the power and brains.<ref>Charles Henry Hession, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=S1BqF0GpL3UC John Maynard Keynes: a personal biography of the man who revolutionized capitalism and the way we live]'' (Macmillan, 1984) ISBN 0025513109, pp. 225-226, as cited in Nina Paulovicova, "[http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/pi/article/viewFile/1591/1117 The Immoral Moral Scientist. John Maynard Keynes]," ''Past Imperfect'', Vol. 13 (2007), pp. 43-44 (PDF 20-21)</ref>}}

{{cquote|the other kind of Jews, the ones who are... serving devils, with small horns, pitch forks, and oily tails. It is not agreeable to see civilization so under the ugly thumbs of its impure Jews who have all the money and the power and brains.<ref>Charles Henry Hession, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=S1BqF0GpL3UC John Maynard Keynes: a personal biography of the man who revolutionized capitalism and the way we live]'' (Macmillan, 1984) ISBN 0025513109, pp. 225-226, as cited in Nina Paulovicova, "[http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/pi/article/viewFile/1591/1117 The Immoral Moral Scientist. John Maynard Keynes]," ''Past Imperfect'', Vol. 13 (2007), pp. 43-44 (PDF 20-21)</ref>}}