Christopher Hitchens on the American Revolution
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LOL, America really isnt the best.
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@AlexanderEBott You aren't thinking correctly. The whole idea of self-governance whilst maintaining freedom MUST have an element of collectivism. The best way for self-governing collectivism to work is for it to be a macrocosmic version of individualist liberty possessing self-control and restraint. Self-control and freedom should be integral and inextricable from each in any self-governing system. Why we try to separate them and collectivize each as 'stand alones' is beyond me.
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@agentssith Businessmen are not necessarily capitalists.
"collectivism as a true macrocosmic expression of individualism", there is either individualism or collectivism, one is an ideological system of ideas expressing the individual as rightful, the other the collective
A constitution limiting the powers of the government (the collective) is a concrete example of individualism.
Imposing the collective's will on any individual negates self-governance/control. It ends individualism.
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@AlexanderEBott Not really. Modern Crapitalists are using state's (small s as in Alabama, ...) rights as a vehicle for state based Capitulism. I don't think given Hitch's background that he is the neo-con you might think he is in contemporary terms. I doubt he would have a problem with collectivism as a true macrocosmic expression of individualism. His belief in the principles of the Constitution mandates this in fact. How can you have self-governance without self control? Kaputilists possess Ǿ.
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@RaySquirrel I would assume he admired it so much as he desired to enslave the productive in America.
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Please get well Mr. Hitchens, From: Your Christian Neighbor (John Burbank, Ca)
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Happy 4th, comrades.
Get well, Mr. Hitchens.
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Has Christopher Hitchens accepted the moral rightness in capatilism when he declares that the American Revolution was good because it established individual rights rather than group rights?
AlexanderEBott 10 months ago
@AlexanderEBott I believe in an interview with Reason Magazine he commented that Marx admired America and the creative power of capitalism. So make of that what you will.
RaySquirrel 10 months ago