[Marxism] Hitchens on France: Reviewing "Left in Dark Times"

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Bons Mots and Bêtes Noires

By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS


LEFT IN DARK TIMES
A Stand Against the New Barbarism

By Bernard-Henri Lévy. Translated by Benjamin Moser

The election of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of the French
Republic, on a ticket of the Gaullist and centrist right, was marked
by two kinds of defection from the left. In advance of the vote, a
number of former Marxist Parisian intellectuals like André Glucksmann
announced their intention of voting for Sarkozy and against the rather
vapid and temperamental quasi-spousal Socialist party team of Ségolène
Royal and her significant other, François Hollande.

Full: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/books/review/Hitchens-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print>

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