What is still called " the Left " today is becoming alarmingly STALINIST

[As a democratic socialist I can only agree with faithful Christians that the New Atheists are an arrogant and obnoxious bunch. And like Christopher Hitchens they betray whatever " socialist " ideals they ever had in order to serve global capitalism, American imperialism and Zionist Apartheid Israel. What is still called " The Left " today has become a malignant force for STALINISM , contemptuous of the FREE SPEECH, FREE THOUGHT , FREEDOM of CONSCIENCE tradition of Western Civilization. How ironic and pathetic : ex-Trotskyist, now PROFESSIONAL ROAD SHOW ATHEIST, Christopher Hitchens defending the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq ( indeed a Bush groupie ! ) and promoting toxic Islamophobia . The biggest mistake of the old Soviet Union was to declare itself OFFICIALLY ATHEIST and to persecute faithful Christians and orthodox Jews. The religious instincts of the masses will never be satisfied by glorifying MATTER -IN -MOTION . And it is foolish to make the abstract study of PATTERNS in History a new secular religion : " HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME ! " Better to talk that over with God .] The God Debate: Hitchens vs. D'Souza