Talk:John Maynard Keynes

message: Recent research has underlined that there was a connection between Keynes and the 1943 Bengal Famine. 
See: Patnaik, Utsa. "Profit Inflation, Keynes and the Holocaust in Bengal, 1943–44." Economic and Political Weekly 53.42 (2018): 33-43. Patnaik, Utsa. "Mr Keynes and the forgotten holocaust in Bengal, 1943–44: Or, the macroeconomics of extreme demand compression." Studies in People’s History 4.2 (2017): 197-210.
This is important information, which deserves to be included in this wikipedia page.
I thus propose to add the following paragraph to the section "Second World War" (after the considerration about the fact that Keynes intended to avoid inflation in Britain).
"By contrast, in his capacity as advisor on Indian Financial and Monetary Affairs for the British Government, there is evidence that Keynes advocated "profit inflation" in order to finance war spending by the Allied forces in Bengal. This deliberate inflationary policy, which caused a sixfold increase in the price of rice, contributed to the great 1943 Bengal famine."
And to quote Patnaik's articles as reference
Posillipo200 (talk) 10:11, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The connection beteen Keynes and the 1943 Bengal Famine 

message: This article has a bizarre phrase 
The full original quote in the source appears to be 
I couldn't find mention of mass murders in the source (Keynes talks about post-revolutionary mood of oppression, the closest phrase to "murders" is "The New Order must not be judged either by the horrors of the Revolution or by the privations of the transitionary period.", used in a different part as an imaginary argument), neither the contradiction between the communist rule and "Russian and Jewish nature".
Am I missing something, or is it a pure WP:OR introduced by an anonymous IP and preserved since? Pinging , who re-added this as "sourced", for clarification. PaulT2022 (talk) 22:44, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for raising this. I've just re-read Lord Keynes 'A short view on Russia' and I'd agree that while LK may well partly mean mass murders when he talks about "the horrors of the Revolution" etc, he's not blaming that not on Russian nature but on what he sees as the obsolete & erroneous nature of the "science" underpinning Marxism/Lennism, & even more so on the "non-supernatural" religious way in which is was implemented. It's a bit ambiguous but if anything he was overall quite +ve on Russian nature. Always regrettable to have to remove another editors work, but I think the passage needs to be removed as a misrepresentation of the source. FeydHuxtable (talk) 23:53, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Views on race - mass murders on a racial basis 

message: This seems to be a widespread issue on Wikipedia.
The concern should be self-explanatory: inconvenient/anti-narrative discussions are hidden from public view and discussion, and relegation to the revision history - under the guise of keeping the talk page uncrowded/neatly organized, or under the guise of removing stuff that is labeled as "silly, conspiratorial, unfounded, politically incorrect, or "objectively false.""
While such arguments may have merit, I would suggest, imo, that most people can see the benefit of a readily accessible, complete and uncensored talk page.
I would suggest that this benefit outweighs the former arguments.
I would also suggest that that an obviously shortened and lacking talk page looks extremely fishy to a reasonable and questioning person.
Is there a reason or policy behind this, imo, recent trend towards shortened/censored talk pages? Sober Reasoning (talk) 01:43, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Old Discussions from Talk Page