Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of *course* the left object to anyone pointing out the left-wing elements of Nazism. The fact robs of them of a major propaganda weapon(the incessant suggestion that political conservatives are semi-Nazis). Hence the hysterical fury I face today. Too bad. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@helen19544 I'm very sad that the British education system was wrecked in the 1960s, so much so that I have written a book about it. But there's no point pretending that it didn't happen, and that it didn't create several generations who are very bad at thinking. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That might depend on how much you knew about it, mate. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@actionphoo, when I was at school, the free state grammar schools were the best schools available. This has nothing to do with private versus state, but with the revolution in education that accompanied comprehensive schooling. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, @colinbvest1978. Even British schoolchildren are taught that. But *you* may have missed the period from 1939-41, during which the two countries were close allies, holding a joint victory parade in Brest-Litovsk, Poland while the Gestapo and the NKVD swapped prisoners. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, .@aaronbastani *I* said that the Nazis were left-wing racists. It was Hitler who said he was a socialist., but neither of us would trust him. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@delboydare, then it will be easy for you to set out an argument in opposition to mine, based upon your superior knowledge of the matter. I await it with keen anticipation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

True enough, and then they found they had been deceived https://t.co/Zf97tfQR7h — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Please read this .@aaronbastani. https://t.co/Zf97tfQR7h It's what they *did* that concerns me, not what they said or what others said about them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@supertanskiii — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Could you please put that into English, @scottberry912? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: Today's controversy has confirmed my view that the ending of the Tale of the Emperor's New Clothes is ludicrously optimist… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@louishenwood. OK. Mr intellectual heavyweight (not a claim I've ever made for myself, but you must think yourself one or why are you disputing my qualities?). Let's see your argumemts, fact and logic. Abuse is not the weapon of the intelligent. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@whitecarz. And do *you* know who the first inhabitants were in the original Gulag camp at Solovyetsky? Socialists and Anarchists. So, was Stalin ( who put them there in increasing numbers, and also killed German Communists who fled to Moscow) right-wing? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@richardjmurphy. But, you see, Stalin also murdered Socialists and Communists and put them in camps. He even murdered German leftists who had fled to Moscow for safety, and handed some of them back to the Gestapo. So was Stalin right-wing? A little learning is a dangerous thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

."@yeswideopen69, this, by the left-winger Roy Greenslade, deals intelligently with this era (it's fascinating that the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror's ancient fascist flirtations are never mentioned). Your point is not very strong https://t.co/B1lkKgz9TP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so, Likewise Karl Marx. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@otto_english He then tries to avoid it by saying 'their “socialism” was at best a secondary element in their appeal.' Maybe. But I'll happily pocket that concession. He just doesn't get the implications of the Stalin-Hitler pact. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Its an *argument* .@otto_english, but not a refutation. Even Granieri concedes that 'the Nazis did pursue a level of government intervention in the economy that would shock doctrinaire free marketeers.'That's a *fact*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ottoenglish. This is desperate. The roundness of the earth is beyond dispute and demonstrable by repeatable, falsifiable experiment. The actions of the Third Reich were in many cases left-wing, and also involved close collaboration with actual Communists. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@otto_english. You have no idea what my assertion is as you still have not read it. 'Debunked' in such cases means that it has been challenged by people you agree with. People disagree over this. If they are rational, they debate it reasonably. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ottoenglish An absurd diversion. Why would anyone believe the words of this notorious liar who regularly contradicted himself? Far better to judge, as I do in my article, by what they *did*. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Today's controversy has confirmed my view that the ending of the Tale of the Emperor's New Clothes is ludicrously optimistic. The child who cried out 'He's naked!' would have been torn limb from limb by the mob, while the secret police dragged his parents off to a dungeon. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, weird, isn't it @sargon_of_akkad.? It's so simple and straightforward, until you look into it. Then it isn't. 'They looked from man to pig, and from pig to man until they could no longer tell which was which' . https://t.co/1z2L4bMpef — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@otto_english. You mean you're afraid to debate it, and prefer abuse. OK. Would you please block me? I am short of electrons today and feel it's really your job anyway, if you've nothing interesting to say. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Awkward moments from history (well, awkward for left-wingers anyway), number one in a series. Stalin hands over German Communists to the Gestapo https://t.co/1z2L4bMX3N — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

. @iainoverton and the equally inconvenient fact that Stalin did exactly the same (many of the German Communists who fled to Moscow were murdered or imprisoned by the NKVD, which even swapped some of them with the Gestapo) . You haven't really thought about this, have you? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@Aaronbastani These are very murky waters. Stalin was just as keen on killing German Communists as Hitler was. The Nazi-Soviet pact was not the cold mechanical thing it portrayed as, but involved close. willing co-operation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@aaronbastani. All the above, except the 'Judeo-Bolshevism, and the explicit racial purity, were true of Stalin's USSR in the same era. And then in 1953, Stalin began a major anti-Jewish racial purge ('The Doctors' Plot). So, I ask again, was Stalin right-wing? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @TheSimonEvans: @merchant_amyn @Otto_English @ClarkeMicah @mailplus If you think that Peter describing Fascism as left wing is him manoe… — PolitiTweet.org