For The Sake Of Argument Essays And Minority Reports – Christopher Hitchens (1)

The punctilious cedilla under Mitterrand’s first name makes it the odder that the surname of the Spaniard and the forename of the Italian are given wrongly, but the maxim of ‘control of the Party above all’ is one that has not recommended itself only to European social democrats. And it was not just his control over the French Socialist Party but his control over the French organs of security that allowed Mitterrand to conduct undercover military operations against a reformist Labour government in New Zealand, and to murder a member of the Greenpeace organization who was making a peaceful protest against French nuclear tests.

In France, this operation is said to have enhanced Mitterrand’s ‘credibility’. I want to raise the ‘Green’ issue for another purpose. By some law of unintended consequences which it would take the pen of a Dangerfield to describe, the very high noon of unfettered resurgent capitalism has been the occasion for a great and possibly historic revulsion against greed and rapacity. This revulsion differs from Luddism or Pre-Raphaelitism in the eminence of its practicality, and in the proven urgency of its presentiments.

More important, the ‘Green’ movement indicts both the state-accumulation socialisms of the East and the short-term opportunism of private enterprise in the West, not to mention the Bhopal and Brazil horrors of the Third World. Inscribed in the idea of a planetary and holistic concern is the mandate for a humane collectivism and solidarity – the precise negation of Thatcher’s crass assertion that there is no such thing as society. Is Labour capable of catching this favourable tide, and the strong currents of anti- nuclearism and concern for civil and constitutional liberties that are its partial corollaries?

Not on the face of it.

Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger Blood, Class, and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles Why Orwell Matters No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton Letters to a Young Contrarian The Trial of Henry Kissinger Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man”: A Biography god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything The Portable Atheist Hitch-22: A Memoir Mortality Pamphlets Karl Marx and the Paris Commune The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favorite Fetish The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice A Long Short War: The Liberation of Iraq The Enemy Essays Prepared for the Worst: Essays and Minority Reports For the Sake of Argument Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Arguably Collaborations James Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten (with Peter Kellner) Blaming the Victims (edited with Edward Said) When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (photographs by Ed Kash) International Territory: The United Nations (photographs by Adam Bartos) Vanity Fair’s Hollywood (with Graydon Carter and David Friend) OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com First published in 2000 by Verso This edition published in Great Britain in 2014 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.

Copyright © Christopher Hitchens, 2000 The moral right of Christopher Hitchens to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Trade Paperback ISBN: 978 1 78239 464 8 E-Book ISBN: 978 1 78239 497 6 Printed in Great Britain Atlantic Books An imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd Ormond House 26–27 Boswell Street London WC1N 3JZ www.atlantic-books.co.uk OceanofPDF.com Dedicated by permission to my son, Alexander Hitchens, and to my godsons Jacob Amis and Henry Cockburn OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS Introduction 1.

Studies in Demoralization Where Were You Standing? On the Imagination of Conspiracy Contempt for the Little Colony The State Within the State Voting in the Passive Voice The Hate that Dare Not Speak Its Name A Pundit Who Need Never Dine Alone Hard on the Houseboy New Orleans in a Brown Shirt Rioting in Mount Pleasant Billionaire Populism The Clemency of Clinton Clinton as Rhodesian Bill’s Bills in Miami 2.

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