Recent fisticuffs over what Keynes meant, would have done, said, have raised past sins. When the Complete Works came out it was noted that in the Introduction to the German edition of the General Theory Keynes's expressed approbation of the Nazi economic proposals for dealing with the Slump - counter-cyclical spending, a raised degree of economic nationalism etc. - had been silently suppressed either by Richard Kahn or the nominal editor.
Which calls into question the worth of supporting present-day political viewpoints with sacred texts, and just how much those texts have been fiddled with.
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Add to that the airbrushing out of cigars from photos of both Churchill & Brunel. Do we really "protect our children" by lying about the past to them?
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