Now he's dead let's all have a go at the man - the man who inspired many of us here I know, with all his apparent inconsistencies and changes of mind and heart. Not a perfect human being but and inspiring one as far as I am concerned.
Now someone has decided to rip him to shreds it seems in a new book called 'Unhitched, The Trail of Christopher Hitchens'..
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1159-unhitched
A pity he didn't have the guts to do it while he was alive.
The revisionist Hitch?
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I'm surprised it's taken so long. 
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I see Seymour is a Marxist. Doubtless he's still miffed that the Hitch renounced Marxism himself.
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Re: The revisionist Hitch?
Somehow reminds me of Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play.
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THE NEGATIVE DIALECTICS OF POODLE PLAY by Ben Watson is simultaneously highly erudite and full of shit. Very amusing if you want a book you can really sink your teeth into. No good if you want FZ's life story, but impressive as a socio-political-exegetical document. Unfortunately Watson doesn't know beans about American popular culture--a must for analyzing FZ--and can't even quote lyrics and titles right.
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THE NEGATIVE DIALECTICS OF POODLE PLAY by Ben Watson is simultaneously highly erudite and full of shit. Very amusing if you want a book you can really sink your teeth into. No good if you want FZ's life story, but impressive as a socio-political-exegetical document. Unfortunately Watson doesn't know beans about American popular culture--a must for analyzing FZ--and can't even quote lyrics and titles right.
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I never really like his vindictive manner deep down. He always needed a enemy and that sort of fella is dangerous in the higher reaches of any movement. 
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Looks like the thought police are a bit late.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: The revisionist Hitch?
Hitch was a sensationalist at heart. Why else would he write for Vanity Fair?
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