But we are seeing that the bureaucratic dictatorship has arrived at absolute bankruptcy. History has shown that they have no way out, no role to play except to paralyze, to prevent progress and create backward- ness, suffering, poverty. So they prefer to introduce changes in the direction of a market economy. And I think that we are arriving at the historical moment where efficient economic planning is perfectly realizable. Fifty years ago for technical reasons it would have been very difficult to carry out, even without the burden of the bureaucracy, because it was too complex to plan and coordinate on the scale of a country like Russia.
Today there is sufficient technology for very good planning.
Of course, not overly rigid and detailed planning but rather laying out certain parameters which with prudent leeway meet the needs and requirements of the country. His brief visit to Moscow convinced him that many people in the Soviet Union hold Trotsky in great admiration. says Volkov. They need outside sources of information and access to his writings. He has called for the juridical rehabilitation of his grand- father, to be declared innocent of all the charges by Stalin against him. The record of the Marxist revolutionary Trotsky is spotless.