Christopher Hitchens - guru nowego ateizmu - nadal ma na tym forum wielu admiratorów.
Mając ich na uwadze, podrzucam tekst autorstwa Hitchensa na temat faszystowskiego - w swej istocie - światopoglądu gen. Baden - Powella - założyciela skautingu oraz ideologii skautingu - przypominającej pod wieloma względami wzorce i ideały faszystowskie. Warto tutaj od razu nadmienić, iż założycielowi skautingu bliżej było do faszyzmu włoskiego ( wielki był z niego admirator Balilii), ale o nazizmie, Hitlerze i Hitlerjugend też wypowiadał się z aprobatą a nawet z entuzjazmem.


"In 1933 B-P visited Mussolini and hymned the Balilla, or Blackshirt youth organization. In a published interview he reported with gusto,
The Duce realises that if his Fascist revolution is to live its permanence will largely depend on the moulding of the men of tomorrow.
As he remarked to me, "Our future is in the hands of the boys." He is himself a "boy-man," with sons of his own and fond of boys ... The B.S.M. [Boy Scout Movement] had been widely established in Italy many years before Mussolini's advent, and when his scheme came to be adopted for all boys the Scouts were naturally absorbed into it. But to them the change was not a great one, since the new organisation was formed on the lines of the Scout movement."

www.theatl(*)06/young-men-in-shorts/302962/