Re: [Marxism] Re: Dumb and dumber

[Steve Olson <noarch99@xxxxxxxxx>]

Moral outrage, sans class, seems common to both Hitchens and Cockburn, but the 
latter remains on the left while the former has ensconced himself in rightist 
waters.  Still, I understand that Hitchens had reservations about Bush, and 
supported investigating the vote in Ohio.
Hitchens was once on the board of NLR?

Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx> wrote:
Steve Olson wrote:
> Wasn't Hitchens in the British SWP? I read somewhere that he once hawked the 
> paper on streetcorners. Also, that Hitchens had written the preface/intro to 
> Deutscher's trilogy of Trotsky in the NLR edition (not the newly reissued 
> trilogy, though).
>
At http://www.marxists.de/culture/media/cockhitch.htm you'll find an
article on Christopher Hitchens and Alexander Cockburn which briefly
goes into their pre-history before they decamped to the States. The
article was written in 1998, before Hitchens' total degeneration into
pseudo-leftist pro-imperialism.

Just for the record, Hitchens was a member of the British International
Socialists, the forerunners of the British SWP, while he was a student
and for a short time afterwards about 30 years ago. He dropped out about
1975.

Einde O'Callaghan


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