Hitchens letter to Seattle peaceniks

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 16 08:58:03 PST 2003


--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Justin:
> > Dear God, how low he has come so fast. Btw, he's
> the
> > _I.F. Stone_ Fellow at Berkeley. What would Izzie
> say?
> > Ant bets on whethet he'd say "Bomb Iraq!"?
>
>
> Why does that surprise you? I always regarded
> journalists as kind of
> prostitutes - tuning any tricks for paying clients.

Well, I'm a laywer, so who am I to talk. But I turn tricks only in my work. In my political work I try to maintain a modicum of integrity.


> It is not a
> personalisty issue but a systemic issue - the class
> which controls the
> means of material production also rules the
> production of ideas, as the
> Old Man said.
>

Yadayada, yes, of course. That doesn't mean it controls every fucking neuron of the means of intellectual production.


> Having said that, however, I am often profoundly
> disappointed by the low
> quality of the left discourse

You and me both, W.

jks

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