RedState's
invaluable Erick Erickson has published the full text of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's thesis.
I have transcribed some of the key graphs, below. In fact, you can read
her entire, 130-page thesis in 90 seconds here if you wish. I'm not
joking about that.
It's now crystal clear that Kagan was nominated for one reason:
to rubber-stamp Obama's radical agenda, including an individual mandate for socialized medicine.
She is a radical. She is a socialist. And she must be blocked at all costs.
Acknowledgements
...I would like to thank my brother Marc, whose involvement in radical
causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope
of clarifying my own political ideas...
...most
historians have looked everywhere but to the American socialist
movement itself for explanations of U.S. socialism's failure...
...the
American socialists· "failure to build a movement that even resembled
Sombart's idealized notion of a class-conscious party--a failure which
they shared with most of their European counterparts--did not render
their party any less significant. Nor did such a failure render their
party any less successful...
[To explain why the] American
socialist movement of the Progressive Era suddenly fell apart... we
must turn to the internal workings and problems of the socialist
movement itself.
...the dissolution of the Socialist Party resulted not from the walkout of the syndicalists in 1912 but from the
infinitely more disastrous departure of the communists seven years later...
...[Early on] the [American] socialists divided into two camps: those of "constructive" and "revolutionary" socialism.
...the
Russian Revolution set the spark to their long-smoldering rebellion,
and the Socialist Party burst into flames. In 1919, the SP split into
two, and the New York City communist movement emerged... by the last
1920's, the socialist movement in New York City was dead.
...The
SP's first priority was to prepare for revolution than to work for
reforms -- to bring ultimate salvation rather than immediate relief.
Conservative
craft unions could not develop the unity and class consciousness that
alone would lead workers to vote the socialist ticket. They could not
compel a resistant capitalist class to accept an SP electoral victory.
Nor could they prepare the workers for the administration of industry
in the cooperative commonwealth. According to such left-wing leaders as
Boudin and Slobodin, then, the socialists needed to do all in their
power to set New York's unions on a militant path. If that meant
interfering with some other "arm", so be it.
...Most historians have viewed World War I as an unqualified disaster for the American socialist movement...
[During
the war] both local and national socialist leaders had taken their
stand: they would condemn the war in the strongest terms... having
formulated their policies, the socialists turned with rekindled
enthusiasm to active propaganda work...
Leon Trotsky, living in
New York..., urged the Socialist Party to adopt more daring tactics in
its fight against the war. In particular, he suggested that the
socialists publicy declare their intention to transform the
international conflict into a civil one...
Finally,
the Socialists began to hold mass meetings in Madison Square Garden,
with audiences that even non-socialist newspapers estimated at some
13,000. Most often, the socialists simply protested the war's
continuation, using arguments and rhetoric similar to those employed
before the U.S. became a belligerent...
rest the rest here
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