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Hitchens is the best writer and speaker currently living.

>> No.1351321
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>> No.1351324

did you motherfuckers see him debate tony blair? he destroyed that dude and he was all sorts of fucked up from chemo and bald as shit

>> No.1351328

>>1351319
Why? I mean, he's clearly not, but why would you say that?

>> No.1351330

Except he's a neo-con shill.

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>> No.1351345

>>1351330
>atheist neo-con

Nigga, you just broke the universe.

>> No.1351349

>>1351345
He is, though.

Loves that Iraq war and Bush & Co.

>> No.1351367

>>1351345

Most of the neo–con figures are non–religious or secular Jews. Shocking, but you'll just have to get over the fact that a movement largely composed of ex–Trotskyites also is full of atheists.

That said, Hitch is still pretty much a Trotskyite, he never embraced conservative politics in whole as a wedge strategy; rather, he endorses neo–con foreign policy as a revolutionary force—though he's smart enough not to use that language.

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>> No.1351370

>>1351367
How can he not see that it's an entirely imperial enterprise?

>> No.1351373

>>1351369

>drink and smoke like a motherfuck
>get cancer
>god did it lol

>> No.1351379

>>1351349
He's not economically a conservative, he has always considered himself to this day as a member of the Left. George Orwell is someone much like Hitchens, who deplored pacifism in the face of totalitarians controlling and destroying a group of people.

>> No.1351381

>>1351370

There is pretty good evidence that Trotskyism evolved, especially due to its anti–Stalinism, into a democratic–socialist form of communism, while retaining its global revolutionary aims. There were figures as early as the 50s (IIRC) who began to see the US as the global revolutionary force, because we really don't occupy—at least not well.

Mind you, I think all this is bullshit, from the socialism all the way up to the wacky militarist eschatology, but the steps the movement took to get there are not incomprehensible.

>> No.1351395

>>1351379
The trouble is that he's articulating this ideology on the auspices of the American empire, which is happy to support dictatorial regimes when they conform their hegemonic agenda.

He's clearly well read on the issues, so I don't know why he can't address this fundamental contradiction.

>> No.1351476

>>1351395

I think Hitchens has been happy to criticize the US when it does just that. The neo–cons, generally speaking, do as well—they hate real–politik. It's the "spreading democracy by overwhelming firepower" thing they are into.

>> No.1351492

>>1351373
>somebody posts a funny picture
>take it too seriously
>stuffy asshole lol

>> No.1352061

I like teh Hitch.

>> No.1352072

That isn't Slavoj Zizek