John Maynard Keynes
The demand engine and the euthanasia of the rentier; "socialise investment" answered as a purer application of his own analysis.
Edition read. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — read in full.
What we took
The closest macro-ancestor. Effective demand is the positive engine Marx left negative, and the AI condition is his "the richer the community, the wider the gap" made permanent. The cohort-targeted multiplier makes the floor-dividend macro-efficient, not merely fair; and the euthanasia of the rentier — interest as a scarcity-rent "like the rent of land," euthanised gradually and sparing the earned — is the finance-rent-capture's canonical grounding. Money's essential properties ground its demotion; demurrage gives a concrete instrument.
Where we diverge — and how we answer
His one divergence — a "comprehensive socialisation of investment" that would steer the aggregate quantity — is answered as a purer application of his own liquidity-premium analysis: fix consumption via the dividend and the liquidity-premium via money-demotion, and investment volume emerges, without a board. Only his flirtation with the labour theory of value is set aside.
The net position
The closest macro-ancestor — his demand engine, his rentier-euthanasia, and his demurrage instrument enter wholesale, and his one divergence dissolves into a purer application of his own analysis.
Every position is read at the source. See the whole register on Lineage & Critique, or the doctrine itself in The System.