Trotsky with Hitchens and Service Chapter 5 of 5

Christopher Hitchens and Robert Service scrutinize the modern romantic view of Leon Trotsky.

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[SurelyYewJest]

I don't see this fight that everyone is claiming CH and RS are having. I see them complementing each other's expertise, with little in the way of objections taken. Hitchens isn't drawing a blank at 9:45, he's thinking through the suggestion made. He wasn't asked to recall, but to consider. As for idiots like socratic1968, have you not heard CH's denunciations of communism and the USSR in other forums? You don't sound like you know much of the man. I don't see an emasculated CH at all.

[alexeirayu]

A fine video. Suh educated people talk about Trotsky and analyze history. It's great.

[normalkuriboh]

Service is clueless and inaccurate. Fact.

[Drac39]

I miss Hitchens and wish he had wrote a book about Trotsky.

[AutoBahnForever]

Hitchens and Service are clueless and inaccurate ? I would assume they have done more research than a part time student commentator. Waiting for the video with you being interviewed on national television about your opinions and comments.

[sangliasuga]

again, the bolsheviks did EXACTLY WHAT HITCHENS said they didn't: replace a system with an independent judiciary(elected judges, jury trials since 1864) and a parliamentary democracy(@ least the beginnings of one) under Karensky.

Hitchens has lost his mind; almost as post-modernist as the religious nuts re usually humiliates in debate

[sangliasuga]

Hitchens of course sounds like an idiot when he calls the White Russian Armies "fascist;" they were in fact fighting for an independent judiciary as Tsarist Russia had elected judges and jury trials since 1964. Who eliminated the "independent judiciary," the unelected, totalitarian, despotic Leon Trotsky. I can't believe there are people who think Hitchens is intelligent.

[shmuelposin]

Did Hitchens just say "The Protocols of the Elders of Stalin"? Oops... He didn't catch his mistake, either.

[spinozareagan]

@workingclasslass A third of Trotsky's brain? You mean the third that wasn't splattered all over his desk when the ice pick carved open his skull?

[workingclasslass]

What a weak ,sorry and pathetic little propaganda show ,no doubt some ignorant folk will be taken in by this utter dross but lets hope not ! The three of their brains combined wouldn't match a third of Trotskys !

End unemployment,homelessness,pros­titution etc etc MASSES of the world unite against the exploiting FEW !!!

Lets have REAL Socialism !!!