Phil Magness Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Contrary to @amercompass's claims, James Madison was not too fond of Henry Clay's "American System" of economics. In fact, Madison told Clay this directly in an 1824 letter. https://t.co/qkxi4IZxwr

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@IMurtazashvili @D_Kuehn In fact, Margaret Sanger wrote Keynes to ask for support on a population-reducing birth control campaign in the US. He responded that population was already under control in the UK so he was shifting his focus to eugenic "quality"...and we all know what that means.

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Here's Princeton's Alan Ryan - about as mainstream as they come - stating an even stronger version of our thesis in his book "On Marx: Revolutionary and Utopian" Ryan made a similar point in his intro to Isaiah Berlin's classic intellectual bio of Marx. https://t.co/GdUL3HLZmd

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Political theorist and Karl Marx biographer Paul Thomas, noting in 1991 that Marx died in relative obscurity. He echoes Hobsbawm on this point. It's funny how many Marxists today get worked up over something that was once widely acknowledged about him. https://t.co/NzE2dKNCEe

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Third, several additional passages have come to light in Kruse's 2019 book "Fault Lines" (with Julian Zelizer). At least one of these cribs another author's text without any citation. Since that same book is referenced later in the same chapter, a coincidence is unlikely. https://t.co/qSxlRiPuBC

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We find no evidence that the SPD's Erfurt Program of 1891 had a meaningful effect on German-language citations of Karl Kautsky, the primary Marxist theorist behind its adoption. Kautsky does skyrocket in 1917 though. Now why could that be the case? https://t.co/6syIV7FruA

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Hayek's Mont Pelerin Society speech in 1984. He was well aware that George Orwell had written a review of Road to Serfdom. https://t.co/SRUYxqxQHK

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The delicious irony: this is the same approach that Karl Marx took when writing dispatches for the New York Tribune in the 1850s. https://t.co/QIRylanulZ

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F. Copleston: Lenin made Marx a big deal E. Hobsbawm: Lenin made Marx a big deal T.N. Carver: Lenin made Marx a big deal C.N. Parkinson: Lenin made Marx a big deal Louis Fischer: Lenin made Marx a big deal Alan Ryan: Lenin made Marx a big deal History Twitter: Nuh uh!!!

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There are a few claims here that I'd disagree about, but this is a devastating assessment of Glory Liu's "Adam Smith's America" as a political project. https://t.co/CtlarMMEly