>>And
I've met the guy and spent an hour talking with him. He doesn't seem
like a sleaze. And my pals at the New Press have spent a lot more
than an hour with him, and think very highly of him. So you'll have
to do better than a feeling.<<
The German monthly magazine Konkret, a far-left Marxist glossy which you can pick up at pretty much any newsdealer, had a great article criticizing Galloway from the left, primarily for his associations with Political Islam and his truly fascist use of rape metaphors when discussing imperialist occupation of muslim countries.
In fact, Galloway's style really is indistiguishable from any continental fascist. Americans tend not to notice these things, not having mass fascist parties equivalent to European parties.
Members of the German NPD show up to their demonstrations wearing Palestinian scarves, wave Iraqi flags, and wear, I shit you not, Che Guevara t-shirts. And, sadly, their Anti-Imperialist rhetoric is indistinguishable from what you would find on the sectoid ML left in most countries.
Galloway uses essentially the same "Blut und Boden" anti-imperialist terminology.
If anybody is interested, I'll gladly translate the article.
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