[lbo-talk] Re: The End of Hitchens

Seth Kulick skulick at linc.cis.upenn.edu
Mon Jul 18 20:09:45 PDT 2005



> Rove Rage
> The poverty of our current scandal.
> By Christopher Hitchens

[...]
> Korea and Libya as well as Iraq and Iran. This evidence is by no means
> refuted or contradicted by a forged or faked Italian document saying the
> same thing. It was a useful axiom of the late I.F. Stone that few people are
> so foolish as to counterfeit a bankrupt currency.

I don't know the original context in which Stone said this, but I saw Hitchens in a debate on "the future of socialism" or something like that about 10-15 years ago, and he used this line with reference to socialism. Now he's using it for this?



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