Richard Seymour on Press TV with George Galloway

Richard Seymour, author of 'The Liberal Defence of Murder', discusses his book with George Galloway MP on Press TV.

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• richard seymour
• george galloway
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• pro-war left
• liberal imperialism

[Irtidad]

Very interesting that he links it all the way back 400 years ago.

Couple issues I had with the interview:

Galloway's rhetoric was very unattractive. I get that you're disgusted with these people, so am I, but to say that they are working for the devil, and to not see the humor in such a statement, is kinda ridiculous.

Also, Seymour says he has a small hope for Obama, even though he criticizes his choices for administration. Why? This seems just to be a cult of personality.

[leninology]

I think the point about 'working for the devil' originates in the debate he and Hitchens had in NY, in which Hitchens recalled that Galloway had praised him for writing like an angel. The 'devil' stuff was an ironic put-down, rather than a literal theological point.

As to Obama, I was a bit too soft on him, but I was trying to get round the obvious enthusiasm that many people have for the guy because of what he represents and point out that the admin will be a hawkish one.

[ChrisEdwards2004]

And Western colonialism/imperialism was NOT responsible for massive carnage in the 19th, 20th and now 21st Centuries, i take it? How many war crimes and massacres was European colonialism responsible for? Nobody bothered to count the dead. It was not Marxists that established the slave trade, wiped out the native Americans or perpetrated the Holocaust. By the way, Churchill thought that "comrade" Stalin was the bees knees--see his war time speeches in Parliament post-1941.

[glamfakir]

George G. is from Dundee: He does not have a Glasgow accent....neither does he have a Dundee accent....He has a proud clear Scottish accent and does not speak in dialect. He sounds totally authentic to my Scottish ear, which is entirely in accord with his politics.

[BeholdZeus]

Absolutely love Richard. A very good analyst and wise scholar.

[TheFabdulla]

Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Equality, Religious Freedoms. Democratic voting systems.

You get all these (to varying degrees) in the West, They are hardly noticeable in countries governed by Islam. Maybe that's the West's fault as well.

I would die defending these rights and freedoms against an enemy who wants to replace them with Sharia Law

[threecundies]

Galloway is nothing more than a slug who metamorphosed into an even fatter slug; he is a craven, corrupt, toady to tyrants and terrorists; he is also what Glaswegians refer to as a blowhard.

And as for Galloway's political catamite, the Marxist clown Seymour, an archetypal unemployable useless permanent student and Marxist fuckwit who idolizes one of the twentieth century's greatest tyrants (i.e. V. I. Lenin) the less said the better.

Viewing the pair of them together is a visual emetic.

[malachy1847]

@LIVERLADD We have to thank both British Imperialism and American Imperialism for the metamorphic changes brought about to Iran and many outher Nation states throughtout the past decades.... which indeed helped create the functioning Theocracies we see there today ...

[NietzscheMarx]

I love it. Galloway says Hitchens = "butterfly who metamorphosed back into a slug"

[abdhamidmatsain]

the christians west symbiotically partner with the powerful secularists to spread christianity and subdue others at the same time...

[LIVERLADD]

Press tv is a Iranian islamic regime tv . and Galloway supports that oppressive regime. Galloway runs to any anti western anti American regime no matter how evil they are

[yington]

@chrisdabdoub

And where exactly is the proof that he was against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan ?

Have you actually got any evidence from the time of this ?

Or are you just hoping that by saying it, it becomes true.

[chrisdabdoub]

@yington he was always against both Soviet and American Intervention in Afghanistan.