Re: Hitch\'d
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You can do better than that.
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Alright, I'll take the high road, travaled by DVault, leading to "Who doesn't like a funny drunk?"
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"Hitchens was not a socialist". True, Hitchens was a Trotskyist.
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Troskyists are socialists. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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Im surpised that you had no comment on the many conservatives' [misplaced in my opinion] infatuation with Hitchens.
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What comment need one make other than the obvious one (which I've already made) : That the Right is so desperate for recognition by the intelligentsia that it will acknowledge and welcome gratefully even an endorsement by a card-carrying member of the Communist Party!
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Have you read Hitchens' book on George Orwell?
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No.
A funny thought: How many conservatives today believe that the West's sympathies were with the wrong side in the Spanish Civil War? Quite a lot, I believe, would choose Franco's fascism over the Republicanism/Socialism of the (legitimate) Spanish government! A government composed by Socialists, Social-Democrats, Communists (both Stalinists and Troskyists), Anarchists, and other atheists.
George Orwell was a reporter in Spain at the time and saw action.
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