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I don't know how one should describe Hitchens' political stance, or even if there is a single category into which he fits, but he has expressly denied being "any kind of conservative". See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8kdzJdrjs the first 25 seconds of this video]. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 17:23, 4 May 2008 (EDT)
I don't know how one should describe Hitchens' political stance, or even if there is a single category into which he fits, but he has expressly denied being "any kind of conservative". See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8kdzJdrjs the first 25 seconds of this video]. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 17:23, 4 May 2008 (EDT)
:More information in a Prospect magazine [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10157 article] about him.
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:Many of Hitchens's critics conclude that this is his way of saying he's a neoconservative. His reply is that he doesn't consider himself to be "any kind of conservative." He would rather just be called a human rights hawk. "There should be a word for people who believe US power can and should be used to oppose totalitarianism," he says. With no faith left in the French and Russian revolutions, or the proletariat, all that now remains is his idea of America as "the last revolution in town"—its spirit of liberty revived by the struggle to transform the middle east.
:As a night with Hitchens threatens to break into morning, theories of how the neoconservative strain emerged from schisms within New York's anti-Stalinist left, become increasingly labyrinthine. "Does this mean anything to you?" he asks at one point. "It must sound like the dribblings of someone reminiscing about being governor-general of the Punjab."
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:[[User:RFayiz|RFayiz]] 07:05, 7 May 2008 (EDT)