First impressions on the Atlantic article of christopher Hitchens on martin Amis's,Koba the dread.1917? Fergeddaboutit! Hitchens wants to take us back now to 1905 when the motivating forces of that uprising were the pristine Lenin and Trotsky,pure as the driven snowballs.I though a priest was at the frontline for some reason.Anyways according to Hitchens that although things may have gone wrong from 1920 and he mentions Kronstadt,he still manage's to miss Makhno and all the other peasant uprisings,he still defends the system that as Bakunin predicted would be the worst of all time. As Hitchens joins the chickenhawks and rabid warmongers of the US lunar right he carries with him like Horowitz,jamesd and others,the legacy of trotskyist denial,wishful thinking and totalitarian worship.Authoritarians of the left and right now slip easily in and out of each others dirty waters.
