From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Sat Mar 31 2007 - 07:36:35 EDT
Jerry, I checked it out, and you were right and I was wrong; I did not recall Trotsky's phraseology correctly. For example, http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1928-3rd/ti04.htm http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1938-tp/tpdiscuss.htm http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Trotsky/permanent/pr03.htm By the subjective factor Trotsky appears to mean the party, the programme or revolutionary organisations. I am not quite sure whether Mandel takes exactly the same meaning. But it would imply that everything other than the defined "subjective factor" is *objective*, and that seems rather dubious. I have long ago rejected that kind of language as totally unhelpful, and it's probably also why I forgot that Trotsky did use it. Jurriaan
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