John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.
John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908–2006, Economist, U. S. Ambassador to India (Democrat), The Affluent Society, Houghton Mifflin, 1968
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In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
Seeger’s admission was typical of tens of thousands of Americans who had become disillusioned with the fairness, equity, and effectiveness of capitalism during the depression. They were easy prey for Communist propaganda which pointed out all the problems in American society from legal racial discrimination to lack of a social safety net while at the same time lying about the Russian achievements and hiding the horrible abuses of human rights—especially the political murders of millions of people. Then the truth about Russia emerged, Seeger and so many others abandoned the Communist Party as at the same time America was improving its society and beginning to try and deal with the great problem that had plagued America from its inception—racism and slavery.
Most Americans who felt this way about the 2011 Congress playing “chicken” with the full faith and credit of the United States did not realize that although 2011 had reached a new low, the problem has existed throughout the republic’s existence. Here Ms. Roosevelt complained about the same thing.
John Kenneth Galbraith OC, also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official and intellectual. A leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, his books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
