Original sentence: His political stance is of the left, particularly of the kind asociated with George Galloway
Edited sentence: He is a classic 'traitor' communist albeit with a post - marxist outlook.His political stance is essentially left liberal but with the emphasis on the left.Like George Monbiot, a fellow Guardian columnist, his background is thoroughly upper middle class, indeed establishment, but his principal outlook is a bitter hatred of the class that he comes from and of the powerful in general.This means for example an instinctive support for anti - Western terrorism, notably for the IRA and pro - Palestinian organisations, hostility to Christianity but not Islam and an increasing anti - semitism.Those who wish to understand Melanie Philips would do well to read some Seamus Milne