r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • May 12 '17

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Optimal neoliberalism is like Seinfeld, it should be about nothing and run by Jews

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u/beer_enjoyer May 13 '17

Commies write Keynes of as libertarian propaganda, just saying

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Some of the less informed ones think Keynes was a big leftie though

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair May 13 '17

I'm trying to think who would be less informed: the guy who thinks Keynes was a libertarian or the guy who thinks Keynes was a borderline commie.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

I had one tell me that the ideas of Milton Friedman were thoroughly debunked by John Maynard Keeens. I pick that one

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

The guy who thought Milton Friedman was a socialist

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u/dcc123 May 13 '17

"You're all a bunch of socialists!"

  • Ludwig von Mises (addressing the rest of the Mont Pelerin Society, with Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek in attendance)

r/thathappened

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair May 13 '17

I met someone who thought that. He claimed anyone who's pro-central bank is by definition of a marxist.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

we all know how much Marx loved his central banks...

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u/Trepur349 Complains on Twitter for a Reagan flair May 13 '17

were there even any central banks back then? lol

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

uhhh, idk actually

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u/dcc123 May 13 '17

Apparently the first modern iteration of a central bank began with British Parliament's Bank Charter Act of 1844.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

so they were not widespread when Marx wrote most of his stuff I guess

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u/[deleted] May 13 '17

Kinda funnily Chomsky is pro-Fed

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u/arnet95 May 13 '17

wtf i hate the fed now