Karl Marx and Gordon Brown

Unfortunately, I cannot provide Joseph Anthony Debono (February 2) with the precise source of my quote from Karl Marx, except to say that it featured in one of his many editorials in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, eventually suppressed like its...

Unfortunately, I cannot provide Joseph Anthony Debono (February 2) with the precise source of my quote from Karl Marx, except to say that it featured in one of his many editorials in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, eventually suppressed like its predecessor.

To John Aquilina-St John (Gordon Brown Leading Britain Into Bankruptcy, also February 2) I say that my praise for Mr Brown is not inspired merely by his UK policies but, in a global sense, he is showing rare leadership qualities desperately needed to shorten the duration of the current widespread recession.

Perhaps one needs reminding that it was an American Democratic President who upheld and implemented Keynsian thinking in similar/worse circumstances, and not the UK Conservative government who derided "socialist" Keynes and only, later and indirectly, tackled the economic crisis from the demand side because of Hitler's war threats.

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