But has anyone told the NYTimes?
Speaking of a "former anti-capitalist":
Hitchens switch
For years, it has been a tradition for C-SPAN's Brian Lamb to ask left-leaning journalist Christopher Hitchens if he was "still a socialist," or if he had "seen the light" about that persuasion. Mr. Hitchens would say, yes, he was still a socialist.
But that is no longer the case, it would seem.
Had Mr. Lamb inquired, "I no longer would have positively replied, 'I am a socialist,'" Mr. Hitchens tells Reason magazine in its November issue.
"There is no longer a general socialist critique of capitalism — certainly not the sort of critique that proposes an alternative or a replacement," Mr. Hitchens continued. "There just is not, and one has to face the fact, and it seems to me further that it's very unlikely, though not impossible, that it will again be the case in the future."
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