I think I will disagree with Ravi. The Old Hitch, that is the younger Hitch, was a much better writer than most left-wing writers. His defection was a loss for the radical left.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:59:23 -0500
On Dec 19, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Well I've heard a lot of this sort of thing over the last couple of days. Liberals, who rarely have a problem with imperial war (except maybe a stylistic one when it's started by a Republican) may fit this bill, but no anti-imperialist was seduced by the guy's prose style into changing his or her mind. Some people like me, who hated his political turn over the last 10 years, felt personal sorrow at his death, but even more sorrow over what happened to the better Hitchens who'd died ten years earlier. Evidently I'm not the only Palladio working in straw.
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I get your sentiment, I really do. You have personal and other reasons for it. In the �other reasons" category falls your post/pointer on FB to the �haters� - clearly you think that Hitchens brought something valuable to the left. I don�t think so. The armies of the left might be meagre, but not so the stock of good writers, analytical and stylistic - some present on this very list. I am happy to agree to disagree.
�ravi
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