El Temible Hitchens

Excelente artículo sobre Christopher Hitchens. El a veces indescifrable autor inglés recorrió un largo camino que lo llevó desde una juventud marxista hasta un presente en el que es un acérrimo defensor de la guerra de Irak.

Imperdible retrato de un grande.

But disillusion, in Hitchens's telling, was written into the DNA of 1968. Aged 19, he was in Cuba when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, and while Castro was making up his mind how to react, it seemed that most Cubans were on the side of the Czechs. "Then Castro gave his long, tedious, mendacious speech, coming out in favour of the invasion. That was a moment you could say that communism was over. What I did not realise at the time was that what we were doing was celebrating the end, not the beginning: 1968 was the last spasm of socialist idealism. It was the dying flare, and the only thing it predicted was 1989. It was a dress rehearsal for the final end of state socialism, in which a lot of my '68 friends turned up again, in '89, in Hungary and in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia and elsewhere. That's Hegel's cunning of history. It was a kind of vindication, though not of the sort we expected."