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I think something specific happened to Hitchens during the Clinton administration though. He seems to have felt that he was dissed by the powers that be and have thrown a gigantic strop, followed by "well then, I'll just take me toys and go play with the Republicans instead!". <BR/>Pathetic really.Cassandra Sayshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775317504418213521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14234730.post-1124752807486907322005-08-22T16:20:00.000-07:002005-08-22T16:20:00.000-07:00I think it's much more porsaic. That is, if we're ...I think it's much more porsaic. That is, if we're talking socialism rather than communism. All the 20 something hippy socialists of the 70's got older, got jobs, got mortgages and Mercedes and now pay huge amounts in taxes. Now is when the welfare state has lost its aura of love and grooviness cause it costs a bundle. As long as it was someone else's bundle, it was easy to support. <BR/>You know the true socialists, at least here in Canada, because us over 40's who actually earn a good living are still card carrying members of the New Democratic Party knowing they won't be offering tax rebates any time soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14234730.post-1124567450978992952005-08-20T12:50:00.000-07:002005-08-20T12:50:00.000-07:00I highly reccommend The Red Scare and The Dark Age...I highly reccommend <A HREF="http://www.questia.com/search/red-scare" REL="nofollow">The Red Scare</A> <A HREF="http://www.bookcounter.com/big/0-89608-127-3" REL="nofollow">and The Dark Ages</A> by Marty Jezer, which has a great deal of information about the demise of the Old Left, if nothing much about the neo-cons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14234730.post-1124566810029503172005-08-20T12:40:00.000-07:002005-08-20T12:40:00.000-07:00The other possibility (talked about in The Power o...The other possibility (talked about in The Power of Nightmares) is that quite simply, the neo-cons HAVE no direction of their own, believing that it's not important what myth is used to keep the population in line. So they jumped ship to join what they thought was the winning side.<BR/><BR/>Kruschev's Secret Speech (which essentially destroyed the U.S. Communist Party, something the FBI had been trying to do for a decade) actually is the beginning of the end of the Old Left. By that time, most of the big neo-cons were already attached to the Republican Party, since the GOP had snagged the most marketable presidential candidate in the U.S. - Dwight D. Eisenhower. Once Eisenhower's expansion of Truman's allegedly insufficient loyalty programs kicked in, Nixon's political protege Joseph McCarthy had already flamed out at the Army-McCarthy hearings, and the Democrats had all but lost the credibility in foreign affairs they'd expected World War II had given them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14234730.post-1124520578048032752005-08-19T23:49:00.000-07:002005-08-19T23:49:00.000-07:00In general, they were crappy Leftists to begin wit...In general, they were crappy Leftists to begin with, and not in touch with real, concrete activism.<BR/><BR/>Most often, they uncritically accepted that the Soviet Union, or Stalinism in general, was actually socialism, and the only form socialism could take. When, eventually, they were forced to acknowledge that there was something a little dodgy about the Soviet Union, they flipped over to the Right, into more or less uncritical support of the US.<BR/><BR/>That was pretty much what happened with the few neo-cons who had considered themselves Left in the past. Their view of Left politics was completely abstract.<BR/><BR/>David Horowitz has made a career (of sorts) out of, "I used to be a Leftist, and I know their secret plans: to KILL US ALL!!!" From what I've read of his biography, he was, for a few years, part of the most psychopathic lunatic fringe of the radical Left, but was only interested in violence against authority, and actually had elitist and misanthropic beliefs even then. In other words, even when he was nominally a Leftist, he was the sort of Leftist that anyone serious about progressive politics would throw out of a meeting before he got too far in his lunatic ranting.<BR/><BR/>I remember reading Christopher Hitchens years ago, in the early 90s, when he had a regular column in The Nation. Almost every column he wrote struck me as politically conservative, although he always framed it as calling for reform of the Left. The big issue with him was imperialism and colonialism: he accepted the basic chauvinist position that "Western culture," especially that of the US, was better in absolute terms than any other culture, and that therefore US intervention was the best solution to whatever problem the US ruling class claimed it was trying to fix. The critical turning point for Hitchens was the invasion of Yugoslavia, when he announced he was breaking with the Left. Since he's now flirting with Horowitz, who's a complete nutcase just this side of an outright fascist, I consider Hitchens to have completely lost any integrity he ever had.FoolishOwlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01573667007319000435noreply@blogger.com