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6:30PM April 19, 2013 Community Church of Boston Lothrop Auditorium 565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 http://www.communitychurchofboston.org Presentation and Q&A with author Richard Seymour On Friday April 19th, join Richard Seymour, one of Britain’s leading young radical intellectuals and principal contributor to the popular blog, Lenin’s Tomb, for a discussion of his recent book, Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, Hitchens emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative “Marxist,” an advocate of America’s invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well as received wisdom. But how much of this was imposture? In this highly critical study, Richard Seymour casts a cold eye over the career of the “Hitch” to uncover an intellectual trajectory determined by expediency and a fetish for power, which is also a cautionary tale for our times. This event is free and open to the public. See the Facebook Event Page. versobooks.com ____ RICHARD SEYMOUR: One of Britain’s leading young radical intellectuals, Richard is the principal contributor to Lenin’s Tomb (http://www.leninology.com/), one of the UK’s most popular blogs. A regular columnist for the Guardian, Seymour is also the author four books, most recently “American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism” (Haymarket 2012) and “Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens” (Verso 2013). He is a founding member of the International Socialist Network. PRAISE FOR RICHARD SEYMOUR’S “UNHITCHED” “Clever, incisive…’Unhitched’ offers a more thorough and in-depth discrediting of Hitchens than anything previously published. And in doing so, Seymour has made an important contribution to understanding the political role of the intellectual celebrity in our time.” – In These Times “Richard Seymour’s ‘Unhitched,’ a slim and scathing denunciation of turncoat scoundrel Christopher Hitchens, is a thoroughly satisfying and politically important book by one of the few remaining great radical left journalists.” – Rabble “Seymour reveals Hitchens as having had a lifelong admiration both for the United States and for empires as civilizing forces.” –Washington Post Book World “Richard Seymour employs a unique technique to shred Hitchens’s political philosophy to pieces: Seymour puts the late writer on trial.” –The Christian Science Monitor By way of preview, please see, “Case Closed: Hitchens in the Dock” by Jack McCarthy in CounterPunch. Jack writes that, ‘the future the gold standard for the deconstrucrion of Hitchens will be Richard Seymours’ “Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens. Sponsored by: Verso Books Haymarket Books Encuentro 5 Mass Global Action Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture Series Open Media Boston Veterans For Peace, Chapter 9, Smedley Butler Brigade Democratic Socialists of America International Socialist Organization http://zinnlectures.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/unhitched-the-trial-of-christopher-hitchens/ ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
