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  The Liberal Defence of Murder (Paperback) By (author) Richard Seymour

  

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  Short Description for The Liberal Defence of MurderSearching examination of the influence of the "pro-war Left" on US foreign policy.
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  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Published: 18 June 2012
  • Format: Paperback 384 pages
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  • Categories: Migration, Immigration & Emigration | Conservatism & Right-of-centre Democratic Ideologies | International Relations | Colonialism & Imperialism
  • ISBN 13: 9781844678617 ISBN 10: 184467861X
  • Sales rank: 546,839

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• In this critical intervention against those liberal commentators who fervently beat the war drums - from Christopher Hitchens to Bernard-Henri Levy - Richard Seymour unearths the history of liberal justifications for empire. He shows how savage policies of conquest - including genocide and slavery - have been retailed as charitable missions and argues that the colonial tropes of "civilization" and "progress" still shape liberal pro-war discourse, and still conceal the same bloody realities. A new afterword assesses interventionism after the election of Obama, with the ongoing occupation of Afghanistan and NATO's Libyan venture.