Trotsky on England

John Maynard Keynes

Chapter Chapter 11 in Essays in Biography, 2010, pp 63-67 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A contemporary reviewing this book1 says: ‘He stammers out platitudes in the voice of a phonograph with a scratched record.’ I should guess that Trotsky dictated it. In its English dress it emerges in a turbid stream with a hectoring gurgle which is characteristic of modern revolutionary literature translated from the Russian. Its dogmatic tone about our affairs, where even the author’s flashes of insight are clouded by his inevitable ignorance of what he is talking about, cannot commend it to an English reader. Yet there is a certain style about Trotsky. A personality is visible through the distorting medium. And it is not all platitudes.

Keywords: Material Force; Labour Party; English Reader; Organise Apparatus; Active Opposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59074-2_11

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