Re; Hitchens (and Marx/Negri) on genocide

[Peter K.]

Doss:
>Ok, did I miss something, or didn't Marx (and more recently,
Hardt and
>Negri) have an exactly similar formulation -- of the "civilizing
influence
>of capital" (or "Empire" in the latter's case)? Was that not
also
>"genocidal" in its implications? Please, this is hardly new --
Hitch is just
>being a good Marxist, no?

It's interesting you mention this. Both Empire and Letters to a
Young
Contrarian (Hitch's latest book) contain this quote from William
Morris:

"Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that
they fought for comes about in spite of defeat,
and when it comes it turns out not to be what
they meant, and other men have to fight for
what they meant under another name."

Peter