[lbo-talk] IWW piece on Iranian labor situation

[Dennis Perrin]

I remember when Hitchens first shocked me (I was much younger then) -- the 
subject of the 19th century American Indian wars came up, and Hitch calmly 
opined that wiping out the redskins was quite necessary for material and 
political progress to evolve.

"But untold millions were slaughtered or displaced!" I said (still being 
young and quick to alarm).

"So?" Hitch replied. "Good fucking riddance."

They were savages, they lived in trees, they were half-naked and primitive, 
plus, they didn't write classic literature! So what good were they?

I should've suspected then that Hitch was on the colonialist nazi path 
himself. But again, I was a dopey kid.

Dennis