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33a41ac Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him. marxism leon-trotsky trotskyism Christopher Hitchens
9ca4e11 I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn. Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant. politics blogosphere isolationism peace-movement permanent-revolution right-wing-politics trotskyism us-non-interventionism war-on-terror iraq-war neoconservatism propaganda internet Christopher Hitchens