meanwhile, i would like your paper. i probably have a copy but, alas, that is one set of boxes that i did not open and sort through over my vacation -- spent ascending and descending stairs, stooping, lifting, dragging, ironing, washing, cleaning. FEH!
shag - everything aches -- carpet bomb
>
> Hi, LBOsters, those who don't know me, I am a former long-time active
> contributor to this list who has had to take a break because of other
> commitments; those who do know me, friends and comrades, I miss your
> ideas and friendship. But I still have to stay in the wilderness for a
> bit.
>
> However, I occasionally run across something I think might be
> especially worth our attention, and the link below is one such. (Those
> who don't find it so can ignore it and draw whatever conclusions they
> like about my judgment.)
>
> It is a review by a member of the Platypus Group of a book about the
> recent, if post 9/11 counts as recent, development of a former
> comrade, Christopher Hitchens. I am very far from being any kind of
> fan of the "new" Hitchens, and confess that I have read as little of
> his post-pro-Iraq war writing as possible.
>
> As some of you know, I don't mind reading, using, and agreeing with
> intelligent rightists -- I'm a big fan of Richard Posner, Friedrich
> Hayek, and other people on the right who are real thinkers and not
> mere ideologues. (I don't care for left wing ideologues either.) But
> Hitch's latest turn hasn't struck me, largely on the basis of a very
> superficial acquaintance, as in this class as opposed to opportunistic
> demagoguery.
>
> Therefore I have no basis for saying anything about this review as an
> analysis of Hitchens' recent development. But I thought the context,
> framing, and political analysis of the baffling situation in which
> people who have identified themselves as leftists now find themselves
> has a good deal of interest and real merit. And, possibly Hitch at
> least exemplifies the conundrum we face, showing one way not to get
> out of it.
>
> Unfortunately the authors and the Platypus group, which I've
> encountered now and then here in Chicago -- they brought Tariq Ali out
> a few years ago -- have no proposals for a solution or a way out of
> these trackless woods in which we find ourselves midway on life's
> journey. But neither do I, or I wouldn't keep it a secret.
>
> http://platypus1917.org/2009/03/15/going-it-alone-christopher-hitchens-and-the-death-of-the-left/
>
> I have manuscript that discusses similar and related themes (no
> reference to Hitch) that I wrote a few years ago and occasionally
> update and send out, but that consistently fails to find any takers
> because Old New Left journal editors find it too grimly apostatic, if
> that is a word. (Although I think it is actually rather optimistic.)
>
> I have made versions available to LOBsters now and then, and here do
> so again: anyone wanting to to read this short (20 pp double spaced)
> accessible piece, please email me and I will email you a copy as an
> attachment.
>
> Andie
>
>
>
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