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The Enemy (Kindle Single) [Kindle Edition]
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Celebrated polemicist Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, reflects upon the life and death of Osama bin Laden in this sobering Kindle Single. This isn’t the first time Hitchens has turned his barbed pen on a despot guilty of drinking too much of his own bloody Kool-Aid. But “bin Ladenism,” he argues, “like other nihilistic movements, is ultimately doomed to fail.” Lest you take any comfort from this assertion, he is then quick to remind us that “the war against superstition and the totalitarian mentality is an endless” one. It’s a war Hitchens thinks is worth fighting, though, and this rousing Kindle Single serves as his call to arms. —Erin Kodicek
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In a brilliant essay on the death of Osama bin Laden, Christopher Hitchens insists that the necessity to resist the threat of theocratic fanaticism is by no means cancelled. Hitchens argues that bin Laden and his adherents represented the most serious and determined and bloodthirsty attempt to revive totalitarian and racist ideology since 1945. Further, that while the unending struggle for reason is entitled to take some especial comfort in his demise, the values of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity will always need to be defended and reaffirmed.
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H/t: Will Rubbish
Shiraz Socialist 
Mikey said,
May 17, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Thank you. I have just ordered the essay.
Jim Denham said,
May 17, 2011 at 5:27 pm
“…While the unending struggle for reason is entitled to take some especial comfort in his demise, the values of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity will always need to be defended and reaffirmed”:
How true. And how clear it is that we must fight to the death the likes of the SWP and “Respect.”
tyresome points said,
May 17, 2011 at 5:43 pm
“Fight to the death”?Is this what you’re saying?
Or should questions concerning this blog in future be directed at the marketing department of
the Syrian Cybernetics CorporationAmazon, which appears to have taken over here.What a stupid and dishonest fellow Hitchens has become.
Jim Denham said,
May 17, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I only reluctantly linked to Amazon, an anti-union outfit. But I thought it important to inform readers of Hitchens’s excellent new piece.
On Chomsky: I think most readers will be aware that I regard him as a nut, a liar, a fraud and a charlatan whose only consistent ideology is classless anti-Americanism. Compared to him, Hitchens (for all his faults) is a giant.
tyresome points said,
May 18, 2011 at 11:06 pm
That sad fucker’s been standing up forPaul Wolfowitz. Is Kissinger the only crazy right-winger he doesn’t love these days?
Can Sah said,
May 17, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Chomsky is significantly older than Hitchens. On the plus side, Hitchens has a terminal illness, so there’s a chance that Chomsky will outlive him.
sackcloth and ashes said,
May 17, 2011 at 9:48 pm
‘On Chomsky: I think most readers will be aware that I regard him as a nut, a liar, a fraud and a charlatan whose only consistent ideology is classless anti-Americanism’.
And support for genocide denial. Hence support for Faurisson, claims that ‘Year Zero’ in Cambodia was a con, and also this interview here:
http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20060425.htm
NC: There was one famous incident which has completely reshaped the Western opinion and that was the photograph of the thin man behind the barb-wire (sic).
DM: A fraudulent photograph, as it turned out.
NC: You remember.
According to Chomsky, this was all a fake …
Scum. Utter scum.
Mikey said,
May 17, 2011 at 11:12 pm
I have now read the essay and I concur, it was well worth reading. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
modernityblog said,
May 17, 2011 at 11:42 pm
It’s not surprising that Chomskites would welcome the death of one of their demi-god’s leading critics, their cold detachment from humanity tells you much about their politics.
Chomsky was once said to be the world’s leading intellectual, yet in areas that he pontificate on, his material is used by students, but not professors.
Again, in the fields of political science and history professionals ignore Chomsky’s rantings and tracts, they are considered agitprop for gullible students and those incapable of critical reasoning.
tyresome points said,
May 18, 2011 at 12:17 am
Donations for Hichens may still be open.
dd said,
May 19, 2011 at 10:46 am
Excellent free e-books here
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/prc/index.htm
and here:
http://www.marxists.org/ebooks/index.htm
I’m reading The Development of the Monist View of History and Terrorism and Communism. The second seems less convincing to me now than it did when I was 20: he uses the word “merciless” too often and sometimes employs word games and metaphors in place of strong arguments.
Last years at Abbottabad: A review of Christopher Hitchens’ ‘The Enemy’ « Though Cowards Flinch said,
May 20, 2011 at 5:16 pm
[…] there is nothing in Christopher Hitchens’ extended essay – The Enemy (available as a Kindle download only) – that is particularly new; one or two unorthodox opinions concerning bin Laden needed […]
Rosie said,
May 20, 2011 at 6:09 pm
I’m pissed off this is only available on Kindle. I thought some situationist would have pirated and published it by now.
josh said,
May 20, 2011 at 9:51 pm
There’s a torrent at http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6406213/The_Enemy_Bin_Laden_-_epub_(Hitchens)
Jim Denham said,
May 20, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Will Rubbish has also drawn my attention to this:
Christopher Hitchens reviews the letters of Rosa Luxemburg:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/red-rosa/8500/
“More evidence that those who think Hitch has become a rightist are, to put it gently, wrong,” says Will.