I'm all for using what we learn as we go along, but I have to say, at this point it would be almost refreshing to run into someone with a plan (Bob Avakian excepted--even with updaters).
Yoshie wrote:
>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.
I thought Keynes wasn't expecting it but objecting to it, the idea that the ideas had been all worked out ahead of time. Which would be like saying, well, we don't need any new data on this experimental cancer drug, we'll just stick with the old data. A decent political program accounts for this problem, includes a bit about how we figure things out.
Jenny Brown