The thing is that the 2008 crisis was not mainly a result of capitalism but of government intervention and bad politics. War against Iraq was not liberal interventionism but neo-conservative interventionism and requesting geopolitics. Hitchens did many good things in public debate. But he also ignored the problems with Islamophobia and cultural racism against Muslims. Nither was he always principal as for example by taking a different approach in his criticism towards Islam compared to Christianity. I think that your article is in several ways overblown and not in accordance with political theory.