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Journal Article
Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism
2023
Overview
Identity politics - especially around race and gender - has become a gigantic engine of political mobilization and social division in liberal democracies. The intellectual and ethical foundation of Hitchens's most essential principles - his contempt for identity politics and religion, consistent internationalism, and immovable support for free expression - was the idea that human beings should demolish the barriers that prevent them from understanding and expressing solidarity with one another. When Hitchens summarized his view of socialism in a 1986 debate, he began with the assertion that \"all divisions of class, nation, race, and sex are, in the last resort, manmade - and can be man-unmade - are in no sense part of a divine or natural ordinance, and ... we are members, like it or no, of one race, the human race.\" Wouldn't a black American who lived in Alabama or Georgia during the Jim Crow era understand the implications of segregation and other racist policies better than a fellow citizen who didn't share that experience?
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Skidmore College
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