……尤其是那些人，但过去极权国家的一贯做法，就是让他们暗中互相揭发。这让所有人都陷入一种持续的恐惧与压迫状态。想看写得极好、震撼力极强的记述，可以去读 Martin Amis 的《Koba the Dread》。
…those people in particular, but the way totalitarian states have worked in the past is to have them report secretly on each other. This keeps everyone in a constant state of fear and oppression. Read Koba the Dread by Martin Amis for a powerful, extremely well-written account of it.
我经常看到有人用“嗜酒如命的前托派花花公子”来形容 Hitchens。Hitchens 在 2002 年为 Martin Amis 的《Koba the Dread》写的书评《午夜的光芒》（Lightness at Midnight），很好地总结了他（也就是 Hitchens 本人）对托洛茨基主义和马克思主义的态度。他挑出了一句 Victor Serge 的绝妙名言：> 你难道忘了其他的破产吗？……
I see "drink-soaked, former-Trotskyist popinjay" applied to Hitchens a lot. Hitchens' 2002 review of Martin Amis Koba the Dread, "Lightness at Midnight", gives a good summary of his (i.e., Hitchens) attitude to Trotskyism and Marxism. He picks out a wonderful quote of Victor Serge: > Have you forgotten the other bankruptcies?…
我正在读 Martin Amis 的《Koba the Dread》。他提出了一个很有意思的观点：大多数人对希特勒（“小胡子”）罪行的本能反应，和对斯大林（“大胡子”）罪行的反应截然不同，即便……
I'm right in the middle of reading Martin Amis' "Koba the Dread." He raises the interesting point that most people feel a viscerally different reaction to the crimes of Hitler ("Little Moustache") than they do to those of Stalin ("Big Moustache"), even though even…
……尤其是那些人，但过去极权国家的一贯做法，就是让他们暗中互相揭发。这让所有人都陷入一种持续的恐惧与压迫状态。想看写得极好、震撼力极强的记述，可以去读 Martin Amis 的《Koba the Dread》。
…those people in particular, but the way totalitarian states have worked in the past is to have them report secretly on each other. This keeps everyone in a constant state of fear and oppression. Read Koba the Dread by Martin Amis for a powerful, extremely well-written account of it.
我经常看到有人用“嗜酒如命的前托派花花公子”来形容 Hitchens。Hitchens 在 2002 年为 Martin Amis 的《Koba the Dread》写的书评《午夜的光芒》（Lightness at Midnight），很好地总结了他（也就是 Hitchens 本人）对托洛茨基主义和马克思主义的态度。他挑出了一句 Victor Serge 的绝妙名言：> 你难道忘了其他的破产吗？……
I see "drink-soaked, former-Trotskyist popinjay" applied to Hitchens a lot. Hitchens' 2002 review of Martin Amis Koba the Dread, "Lightness at Midnight", gives a good summary of his (i.e., Hitchens) attitude to Trotskyism and Marxism. He picks out a wonderful quote of Victor Serge: > Have you forgotten the other bankruptcies?…
我正在读 Martin Amis 的《Koba the Dread》。他提出了一个很有意思的观点：大多数人对希特勒（“小胡子”）罪行的本能反应，和对斯大林（“大胡子”）罪行的反应截然不同，即便……
I'm right in the middle of reading Martin Amis' "Koba the Dread." He raises the interesting point that most people feel a viscerally different reaction to the crimes of Hitler ("Little Moustache") than they do to those of Stalin ("Big Moustache"), even though even…