[lbo-talk] Keynes on Trostky

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 5:10 PM -0400 7/6/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
><http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/comments/keynes01.htm>
>
>Trotsky On England (Where is Britain Going?)
>John Maynard Keynes
>
>Published: Essays in Biography, Harcourt, Brace, 1933
<snip>
>Granted his assumptions, much of Trotsky's argument is, I think, 
>unanswerable. Nothing can be sillier than to play at revolution  if 
>that is what he means. But what are his assumptions? He assumes that 
>the moral and intellectual problems of the transformation of Society 
>have been already solved--that a plan exists, and that nothing 
>remains except to put it into operation

No social revolution (or "transformation of Society"), _be it 
bourgeois or socialist_, was "planned" ahead of time, much less 
"planned" in a way that a policy proposal within the existing 
political framework (for a tax cut, a welfare reform, a Medicare 
privatization, a coup, an invasion, a terrorist attack, or whatever) 
lays out "a plan."  There cannot be "a plan" for social revolution of 
the sort that Keynes expects.
-- 
Yoshie

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