[lbo-talk] Keynes on Trostky

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 2:05 AM -0400 7/8/03, JBrown72073 at cs.com 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.

Keynes assumed that Trotsky had "a plan" -- his objection was that 
what he assumed to be Trotsky's "plan," in his opinion, left many 
"moral and intellectual problems" unresolved.

Social revolution -- especially the crucial phase of the dissolution 
of the existing power structure -- can't be "planned," however, and 
I'd think that Trotsky must have known that, based upon his own 
experience.
-- 
Yoshie

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