Note: I linked to this Hitchens piece through the Hitchens web-site. It suggests that Hitchens wrote this, but without a by-line, it's not 100% certain (there's mention at the end).
Also, this author claims to some extent still be a Marxist, but Hitchens has abandoned that Utopian Ideal (unless the once a Marxist, always a Marxist maxim holds, regardless of change in worldview).
In any case, it's a commentary on some recently published letters of that 19th-century Positivist, garbage historian (he was a Philosopher-Journalist, afterall), Karl Marx.
Friday, July 06, 2007
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For whatever oddity of worth, I've often thought that Karl was a far far better journalist/observer than an architect of dystopian worlds [unfortunately, he gave better architects the vision of such dystopian worlds, eh Lenin?].
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