But moreover it's fucked up that he thought this He was WRONG He wrote this in 1946 and predicted that soon Marxist-Leninist ideology would become dominant among the Western intelligentsia, that you wouldn't be able to say bad things about communism, the USSR or Stalin
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ha, fair. Alas.
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I hasten to add that I think, obviously, the existential threat of Nazism was way more real than the threat of "global Islamic extremism" Hitchens wasn't fit to tie Orwell's boots and the fact that his right turn almost feels like a *conscious imitation* of Orwell is deep cringe
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Yeah - at least Hitler was a real threat, and at least Churchill's speeches were good.
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