[Marxism] Re: Dumb and dumber

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh God, I couldn't get through it, giving up at approximately 1/3 of
the way down.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/hay2005/story/0,,1496348,00.html

However, I do have a question? Just what did Christopher Hitchens's
Trotskyism consist of?

David Horowitz, for example, was close to Isaac Deutscher for a while.
Earlier he was completely dismissive of the SWP/YSA in Berkeley-- those
"New Left" graduate students were poised for greater things, of course.

David King was and is a serious student of Trotsky and Lenin and is
well-known for his graphic books on the Russian Revolution with
particular attention to Trotsky and other members of the Left
Opposition.

But why is Hitchens a former Trotskyist? Did he ever belong to a
tendency in Great Britain? If so, for how long, and did he play any
positive role in such an organization?

Would Hitchens or those who publish him be surprised to learn that we
American Trotskyists never heard of him? At least, I never did in the
17 years that I was in the YSA and SWP.

Or for them to learn that virtually no Americans ever heard of him
under any label?


Brian Shannon

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