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Old 08-15-2016, 03:51 PM   #74
peter12
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
That's not the point, the point is that two last words when someone is dying does not tell you much of use about a person's world view. This elevated importance you're putting on it makes no sense to me.
I used it as a small rhetorical flourish.

Anyone who has paid any attention to Hitchens would know how important Trotsky was. Man, why do you have to find a hill to die on every time?

It is ancillary to the discussion. Yes, he was a Trotskyist, no, he wasn't always cohesive in his personal ideology.
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