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...
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...
Good work, Nora. : ) I imagine that the administration will say that Kagan was exploring political philosophy when she was a young college student or something like that. (It makes me wonder, again, why Barack Obama's college transcripts haven't been released.)
Posted by: KS | Friday, May 14, 2010 at 05:56 AM
The little troll tells us to our face she's a socialist: http://www.redstate.com/erick/files/2010/05/kaganthesis.pdf
Read her conclusion (p. 127). It is textbook uber-radicalism, not soft socialism. For example, she laments the growth of trade unions on page 128.
Oh. It must also be a coincidence that the completely non-socialist, no-where-near-a-Marxist, not-even-close-to-a-Muslim Barack Hussein Obama nominated her for the highest court, and that she is one of the youngest people to be nominated. And the far left is upset that she is not radical enough? Very funny. That is BS disinformation.
Kagan:
"The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialism's decline, still wish to change America. (!) Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one's fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."
So are those who think Obama is a radical socialist "delusional" and "paranoid"? How many radical leftists does Obama have to support and promote before we Americans start getting the picture?
Posted by: Reasonsjester | Friday, May 14, 2010 at 09:00 PM
I am a wreck over this! How can ANYONE ignore any of this? She could not be a worse candidate for the SCOTUS! I hope and pray she is not confirmed but I don't see the will to stop it.
Posted by: Nora | Friday, May 14, 2010 at 09:41 PM