I can never understand how guys like Galloway can completely ignore the ridiculous human rights violations of these third-world tyrants they support. Then they accuse their own government for trying to stop these tyrants. I just don't get it.
Let me give you a hint: $$$$$
Because as leftists they are Utopians, believing that an essentially perfect society (based on "social justice," "people's democracy," yada, yada, yada) is possible.
However it's impossible to get to the Utopia starting from the free, liberal society. You can only build the Utopia according to a plan and by starting with a clean slate. You must first have a "revolution" that casts down the (putatively unjust) institutions of liberal, Western society.
The problem here, of course, is that free, liberal, and consequently prosperous, societies are pretty much revolution proof.
Nihilism goes hand in hand with Utopianism. You must first destroy the existing order and build the Utopia on it's ashes. Totalism (totalitarianism) is likewise a necessary companion to Utopianism. Because the Utopia is built according to a plan, and an absolute ruling idea (e.g. "social justice," "racial purity," or whatever) its construction presupposes totalitarian control.
So, in short, it is only in brutal, destructive, despotic regimes, that hard leftists see hope for revolution and the institution of the Utopia. Strange, but true.