Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@othermistertee Do you know any Soviet history? The first victims of the Gulag in 1923 were socialists and anarchists, and independent trade unions was quickly squashed. Was the USSR not left-wing, then? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Absolutely not .@goze1. I think the 'all conservatives are Nazis' argument does huge damage in free societies. This may help you https://t.co/Zf97tfQjhJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, .@MoralStress and this is more or less what the Communist regimes did to the unions in their countries. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@WT30868079 Like any former Trotskyist, my late brother knew all about the mad failure of the KPD to unite with the SPD to fight the Nazis, and about the Stalin-Hitler pact. I doubt you are right. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@WilliamMcIlhag1 Indeed, quite so, but what point are you making? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Assertion, .@dasjarg, is the most banal of all forms of argument. If it is wrong, show it is wrong , using facts and reason. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ange_sandgrown. This just advertises the fact that you're not interested in thinking or debate. Who does that help? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Then , @matt_saunders, correct me. Here I am, awaiting your correction. Try your red pen on this https://t.co/Zf97tfQjhJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@malcjo. That is also one of the first things the Soviet Union did. Would you call Stalin right wing? I did not say that Nazis were communist, but that they are a movement of the left (who often got on well with Communists) https://t.co/Zf97tfQjhJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@chrisking. Most of these things were done by Stalin too. So was he left-wing or not? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @thimbles69: @ClarkeMicah @mailplus Oh do fuck off you squinty faced bastard. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@bernameaden. the same is true of the first Soviet Gulag camp at Solovetsky. The frst prisoners were socilaoist and anarchists. Btw, the Communist GDR used the similar Buchenwald to lock up its opponents after 1945. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@thesambizzle. 'Fascist' has no particular meaning except when applied to the actual parties which used the name. Communists tend to prefer it because the word 'Nazi' reminds people rather awkwardly of the Nazi-Soviet pact — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@lobbycomm. You could say more or less the same about the inter-war USSR, and the post-1945 People's Democracies. They forbade independent trade unions and persecuted the churches. Wewre these regimes of the right? Keep trying, but you haven't scored yet. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@scribemole. You might find this helpful, if you wish to think rather than jeer at the unfamiliar. https://t.co/Zf97tfQjhJ Have you ever considered the significance of the name 'National Socialist German Workers' Party'? Might it indcate something abt the organisation so named? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I say, .@ofselina, that is a very powerful and well-constructed argument. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dd1958 Calm yourself. Stalin slaughtered socialists in hecatombs. No fun being a Menshevik or an SR, or an oppositional Bolshevik, in his times. Does that mean that Bolshevism wasn't a movement of the left? If it doesn't, you need to do better here. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @tencents77: @ClarkeMicah @mailplus “Nobody seems to know one crucial thing I made up that is absolutely not true” mmmh wonder why they… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The simple point .@wrkclasshistory, is that socialistic ideological regimes, whether Soviet or Nazi, had cosy deals with capitalism. So it doesn't detract from my deeper point. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Let me repeat, .@wrkclasshistory, the USSR *did* exist, and 'At the ceremonies dedicating the [Dnieper] hydroelectric station, in 1932, the government awarded [the American Engineer] Hugh Cooper its highest honour, the Order of the Red Star'. https://t.co/Vw3Dgsj7Xx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@honestrob3. What a coincidence. Socialists and anarchists were among the first inmates of the Soviet Gulag. https://t.co/nGCXRpgBJ2 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@wrkclasshistory, also, sorry I've no photos, but you do know that Stalin was on close terms with American industrialists, don't you? : https://t.co/Vw3Dgsj7Xx — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@wrkclasshistory — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@wqrkclasshistory. You're stuck in the Edwardian age. The intelligent left long ago made its peace with big business, and vice versa. See for instance the People's Republic of China. The real war is about culture, family, education and sex. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Further thoughts on the leftism of National Socialism : https://t.co/Zf97tfQjhJ — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This is full of good sense https://t.co/pYGz5kxF7A — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@johnwhelo. I am open-minded or how did I get here? Whatever you believe now I too have probably believed it at some point, which is why I now don't. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @BalthazarGrimm: Many cultures have ways to mark the transfer from child to adulthood In the Jewish faith it’s the Bar Mitzvah For the… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@cassandrasbox The left originates in French radicalism of the 18th century which had little to do with economics and everything to do with overthrowing the power of Christianity , family etc. The economic preoccupation came later, and has now been largely shucked off. — PolitiTweet.org