Christopher Hitchens (5/6) on Ken Starr, Religion, Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan (1996)

[belzondium]

"I think we just did this... I had the impression we went through this a couple of minutes ago"

[unfad1ng]

I like Hitchens views on religion but i hate his views on politics,

Bassically becasue he has very intelligent things to say about religion but very stupid things to say about politics, well he is a communist so its not strange that he does not act intelligent regarding politics

[hugoegbert79]

@unfad1ng He's not a communist, he's a socialist. There's a difference. And he's not a socialist anymore anyway, hasn't been for about ten years now (around about the time he became a warmonger).

[unfad1ng]

@hugoegbert79

well thaths a relief.

I dont like socialism its to much control and to little freedom

[michaelchristopherj]

@unfad1ng I'm sorry but your fucking mistaken. Socialism has nothing to do with freedoms, in fact most socialists are on the libertarian side. It means workers control the means to production. Period.

[unfad1ng]

@michaelchristopherj

It means collective control of the means of production.

[michaelchristopherj]

@unfad1ng Exactly. What does that have to do with restricting of freedom?

[metallitech]

@michaelchristopherj Nothing to do with freedoms? You cannot collectivize people like that without them loosing freedoms.

[TheGreatDeciever55]

@hugoegbert79 do you consider his support of the iraq war warmongering? please elaborate...

[bertiethetoupee4]

@hugoegbert79 He is not a socialist but still a Marxist, in his own words. I don't think he became a warmonger - he simply has a Jeffersonian attitude to foreign intervention: that intervention is necessary to destroy fascism, whatever face it has. You may, and perhaps quite rightly, disagree with him on Iraq, but his motives for supporting it are good.

[graciehunterII]

@bertiethetoupee4 All quite true. Unfortunately, we (the USA) have become the Fascists.

[kmeisenbach1]

to Currently associate Alan Greenspan with Ayn Rand, is either Lazy or Dishonest, as Alan Greenspan flipped to the OPPOSITE philosophy of Ayn Rand over 30 years ago. Nothing in Capitalism would include a government function of controlling interest rates. If you want to read more, check the Ayn Rand Institute site

[kmeisenbach1]

to Currently associate Alan Greenspan with Ayn Rand, is either Lazy or Dishonest, as Alan Greenspan flipped to the OPPOSITE philosophy of Ayn Rand over 30 years ago.

[fathead8489]

I'm glad Hitchens can lol at the Ayn Rand asshole. I have a hard time laughing at people who are literally evil.

[sybo59]

@fathead8489 Evil how?

[xomiakas]

@fathead8489 evil how?

[smashbeans]

wow,thumbs up!