https://prole.wiki/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=72.224.187.51ProleWiki - User contributions [en]2026-10-27T21:58:28ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.11https://prole.wiki/w/index.php?title=John_Maynard_Keynes&diff=92232John Maynard Keynes2026-08-03T04:41:48Z<p>72.224.187.51: Revert if this is wrong, but the original choice of words here makes it sound like Keynes proposed inflation itself as a solution to something (in the same vein as lowering wages), rather than immiserating the workers through poor handling of inflati</p>
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<div>{{Infobox person|name=John Maynard Keynes|image=John Maynard Keynes.png|image_size=200|birth_place=Cambridge, [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]|death_date=21 April 1946|death_place=Tilton, England, [[United Kingdom]]|field=Economics|birth_date=5 June 1883}}<br />
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'''John Maynard Keynes''' (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] [[Economics|economist]] and founder of Keynesianism. His 1936 book ''A General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money'' attempted to explain the causes of [[Economic crisis|economic crises]]. He blamed insufficient consumer [[demand]] for the crises and advocated for the [[state]] to increase investment and [[profit]] by lowering [[Wage|wages]]. His proposed policies regarding [[inflation]] and war spending would worsen the living conditions of the [[proletariat]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|year=1954|title=Political Economy|chapter=Economic Doctrines of the Capitalist Epoch|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/pe-ch22.htm|section=The Further Degeneration of Bourgeois Economic Science. Present-day Bourgeois Political Economy|mia=https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/index.htm}}</ref> Keynes did not want countries from the [[Global South]] to participate in the [[Bretton Woods Conference]] and called the meeting a "monstrous monkey-house".<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=[[Vijay Prashad]]|year=2008|title=The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World|chapter=Buenos Aires|page=68|pdf=https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzaceascnzh26r5d6uitjjs2z7rflhaxlt7rboz5whzdf76qg6xxvecqq?filename=%28A%20New%20Press%20People%27s%20history%29%20Vijay%20Prashad%20-%20The%20darker%20nations_%20a%20people%27s%20history%20of%20the%20third%20world-The%20New%20Press%20%282008%29.pdf|publisher=The New Press|isbn=9781595583420|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=9B40B96E830128A7FE0E0E887C06829F}}</ref><br />
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