[OPE-L] Mandel's dialectics

[Jurriaan Bendien <adsl675281@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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