Swarthout’s Reviews > In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution > Status Update

"[w]e reach a condition where there is no shortage of houses, but where nevertheless no one can afford to live in the houses that there are”—in other words, an “excess of riches” cannot prevent an “excess of poverty.” sounds prescient, capitalism is constant.

do we embrace a kind of revolutionary faith in the incontrovertible truth of the will of “the people,” or do we work with the notion...that only those recognized as having an adequate stake in society can be trusted to construct and maintain it? That liberals have opted for the latter since the very birth of liberalism in the revolutionary era is one of the illiberal truths of liberalism

"Since liberal capitalism cannot and will not hold itself responsible for poverty—which is, on its terms, a condition insufficiently or not yet liberal and capitalist—then poverty is always the fault of the poor. There is nowhere, systemically or geographically, the poor are “supposed” to be"

"his work [marx] seriously enables Leftists to see that one’s world—especially if one is among the more fortunate—does not match one’s political or moral claims. And the only way to make it do so would be to embrace the kind of change that quite possibly means throwing it all away"