opebo, do you have an opinion of the earlier Trotskyist Hitchens?
I don't think he ever really stopped being a Trot in some respects. Not that he was exactly alone in that.
There's an argument to be made that parts of the neoconservative attitude towards one's nation viz-a-viz the rest of the world are conceptually similar to the Trotskyist attitude.
opebo/Hitchens, but I wouldn't be happy about it.
I was under the assumption that becoming a Communist, especially a Trotskyite, was joining the Catholic Church, once in you can't really
leave...