Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

John Maynard Keynes

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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Inflation Political theory Politics Economics

Author

John Maynard Keynes

Source

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Economist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 6.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016, ch. 6.

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Original Citation

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Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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Rosa Luxemburg
Source
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Language
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Time
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Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Russian Revolution." The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism? Trans. Bertram Wolfe. University of Michigan Press, 1961, ch. 6. Originally, Die russische Revolution [The Russian Revolution]. Paul Levi, 1922, ch. 6.