Hitch in Reason

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 3 21:19:30 PDT 2001


A friend writes:


>There is, by the by, a rather wonderful interview with [Christopher
>Hitchens] in the November issue of REASON, conducted pre-war, in
>which he more or less denounces socialism, says he wishes he'd voted
>for Thatcher, and seems to say that "Marx's original insight about
>capitalism was that it was the most revolutionary and creative force
>ever to appear in human history....Marx and Engels though that
>America was the great country of freedom and revolution...that's the
>nearest I've come to stating not just what I believe, but everything
>I ever have believed."



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