{"id":43519,"date":"2025-08-28T21:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=43519"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:10:23","slug":"john-kenneth-galbraith-on-the-modern-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/john-kenneth-galbraith-on-the-modern-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH ON THE MODERN CONSERVATIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-94.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67295\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Kenneth Galbraith in 1952<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;\u201cThe modern conservative is engaged in one of man\u2019s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.\u201d [<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013John Kenneth Galbraith speech to U.S. Senate on December 18, 1973<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Kenneth Galbraith OC, also known as Ken Galbraith (October 15, 1908 \u2013 April 29, 2006&nbsp;), was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. 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.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kenneth_Galbraith\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kenneth Galbraith in 1952 &nbsp;\u201cThe modern conservative is engaged in one of man\u2019s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/john-kenneth-galbraith-on-the-modern-conservative\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43520,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43519\/revisions\/43520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}