Of course, Adam. The SPGB
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Of course, Adam. The SPGB would never disparage apostates, would it?
I’m actually a great admirer of Hitchens. ‘God is not great: How religion poisons everything’ remains one of my favourite books ever, and I often refer people I’m trying to convince of the case for socialism to Hitchens’ documentary on Mother Theresa if they happen to suffer from the religion virus. It’s true that he was ridiculously daft about Trotsky, and he was as wrong about socialism as he was about capitalism. But let’s be clear: infuriating though he may have been he did some good work. Far too often we revolutionaries are far too fond of condemning and dismissing people who make a great contribution to the movement without actually being socialists.
