I FIRST CAME across the writer Christopher Hitchens when he was a young Socialist contributing his “Minority Report” to the Nation. Very much yet in his soixante-huitard, Trotskyist phase, if not in possession any longer of his Socialist International card, he reminded me of my favourite writer, George Orwell.
Posted in Obituary, Wayne's Picks, Writers and Writing
Tagged America, Brian Lamb, British Writers, Christopher Hitchens, CNN, David Runciman, George Orwell, Islam, Leon Trotsky, Literature, Minority Report, Obituary, Politics, Ronald Reagan, September 11, Socialism, The Left, Washington, Writers, Writing
OF THE MANY, tedious American delusions, perhaps the most insistent and counter-factual materialist superstition is the daft creed that America is a classless society. How useful then for so many citizens to chuck this nonsense and have at it in the open October air, and in the precise manner that Karl Marx identified as the very engine of historical development: the struggle between the haves and the have-nots. Or, as the Wall Street Occupation puts it, the struggle of the ninety-nine have-not percent against the has-it one.
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Tagged America, Amy Kremer, Bail-out, Capitalism, Class, Economics, Eric Cantor, Family Research Council, Karl Mark, Occupy Wall Street, October 2011, Tea Party, Value Voters Summit, Wall Street, Washington
