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Hitchens and facts.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: I doubt Richard King's claim that Christopher Hitchens has shown himself able to recognise unpleasant political facts (September 2003). As a (former?) dissident Trotskyist, Hitchens is unable to recognise the evils of communism in general. Hitchens' references to recent Islamic terrorism and to the recent Balkans war reveal a tendency to use the Left's language of political correctness rather than call a spade a spade.
By restricting his condemnation to what he terms "Stalinism", Hitchens fails to acknowledge the evils of communism from Lenin onwards. Yet many writers (for example Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Richard Pipes) have said that the purges, mass murder, suppression of free speech and other horrors of communism under Stalin were an essential part of the political system established under Lenin. Leon Trotsky and his followers had no quarrel with communism as such, but only with the operation of the communist system under Stalin. I find in this a failure by the Trotskyists to recognise unpleasant political facts, a failure which I find in Hitchens.
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Hallow, Ralph Z. February 13, 1999 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) November 12, 2009 700+ words
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- Christopher Hitchens offers advice to young contrarians.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Romano, Carlin January 4, 2002 700+ words
...journalists and politicos, Christopher Hitchens' spacious apartment in the swank Wyoming...as the events of Sept. 11, and, in Hitchens' words in the December Atlantic Monthly...American) Empire." This is Christopher Hitchens' world, and everyone else _ excepting...
- An attack on God both outrageous and popular: Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Lloyd, Laura August 3, 2007 700+ words
...outselling British journalist Christopher Hitchens' sunflower-yellow screed attacking...Princess Diana actually figures in Hitchens' arguments that God doesn't exist...it for all others.) By late July, Hitchens' book was still in the top 10 for its...
- HITCHENS' LATEST MAKES A CASE FOR FOR ARGUMENT.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot February 24, 2002 700+ words
...LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Basic Books/Harper Collins. 141 pp...and Vanity Fair magazines, Christopher Hitchens' books include ``The Trial of Henry...series, ``The Art of Mentoring''), Hitchens stresses the importance of taking a contrary...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek May 14, 2007 700+ words
...atheism, butto the journalist Christopher Hitchens it's an opportunity to remind his readers...under fatwa of death for apostasy--or Hitchens himself, who was warned of possible...apartment. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, Hitchens finally takes on, in his new book...
