Reading finance as a Keynesian aberration is a shared liberal and Marxist error

Evidence

Perhaps we can see financialization as something very different from a regrettable perversion of or departure from some sort of normative Keynesianism (an approach common to liberal critics and to Marxists, the latter all too often pining for an age when class struggle seemed more straightforward and tangible). — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 581

Categorization

  • XREF: Contradicts the common framing (in figures like Stiglitz or Piketty) that finance is a corruption of otherwise sound capitalism.