On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:36:38 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
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> On Dec 20, 2011, at 2:30 PM, // ravi wrote:
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> > Hitchens was a toff, a Lord. And the English-speaking world, it
> seems, still likes to love a Lord.
>
> As more than one person has pointed out, he was from the "lower
> upper middle class" - he wasn't a lord. Thus the social climbing. A
> real aristocrat, like Cockburn, doesn't need to do all that
> climbing, and so can sit in Petrolia with a cockatiel on his
> shoulder.
As I recall, Perry Anderson is also some sort of lord. You would think that people who called themselves socialists wouldn't care about this sort of shit, but obviously in the UK they do.
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> Doug
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