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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Interesting biography share brother.
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Keynes was a socialist who believed government could manage an ever-changing economy; it can't. Hayek was the better economist.
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He was hardly a socialist.
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Although he never joined the Fabian Society, he was very much a socialist and was accepted by his Fabian socialist peers for his beliefs.

Keynes was invited to join the Apostles, a small, secret society of dons and undergraduates who met to discuss ethical and political issues. The group included Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster and Bertrand Russell. His friendship with Woolf and Russell brought him into contact with leaders of the Fabian Society, including Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw.

At Cambridge Keynes joined the Bloomsbury group comprising, mainly: Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey, Desmond MacCarthy, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and Roger Fry. Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, J. McT. E. McTaggart, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster. Most of these were Fabian socialists.

The chronology of John Maynard Keynes’ association and activity with Fabian socialism is unbroken from 1904 until his death. In 1912 Keynes was reported as a member of “an astonishingly brilliant batch” of Cambridge Fabians.

At the age of 20 (1903) Keynes became a member of a Fabian group at Cambridge which was headed by G.L. Dickinson, a prominent Fabian Socialist.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Socialists seemed to have more of a following back then. Think a war solved that!
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