[TigerBait]

quote:
I would like to thank my brother Marc, whose involvement lin radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas.

[Vision]

“Granted that one city is not a nation, the experience of New York may yet suggest a new solution to this critical problem.” So she seems to be have sympathy for the fact the socialist movement failed by her standards.

Then, on page 130, “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….”

Wow.

“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 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.”

[TheVitaminPress]

Alright . . . it may be a couple of days before I get the time to read through all of this, but after taking in the first few pages I have to wonder (other than the prestige and networking opportunities) how an ivy league education can be so esteemed when it green lights high school level drivel like this.

[GeronL]

Her argument in Citizens United should be enough to disqualify her.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Infidels Are Cool

[centurion316]

The real problem with self-annointed intellectual snits like Kagan and the rest of crowd infesting the White House is not their allegience to socialism, communism, or progressiveism, although they certainly are dedicated to these failed political philosophies. The real problem with these people is their belief in their own infallibility.

Kagan is not only the smartest person in the room, but on the planet. She will feel no constraint to examine the law, precedence, the Constitution, or anything else beyond the boundary of her eyes. She, and she alone, has the capability to rule on the basis of her genius alone. She will wonder out loud why those other eight boobs are wasting their time on the Court.

[Oceander]

bumper sticker

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

I just want to point out that if one was a Socialist/Communist the the following thesis would be that the various communist groups shouldn’t put themselves under the control of the Russian Soviets but follow the Liberation Philosophy of the Sandinistas.

(Someone post a Reverend Write link please!)

[TigerBait]

“Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of major political force?”

Welcome to the Obama administration.

[ROTB]

Page 1 : “... countless historians have tried to explain why is there no socialism in America ... they have pointed to the fluidity of class lines in the United States — a fluidity which, whether real or imagined, impeded the development of a radical class consciousness.”

SO! An admission that you have to tax people to death, and dumb them down, for them to accept socialism. Nice!

Page 1: “Socialism has indeed existed in the United States”.

Yes! Just has Islam has! Just ask Barry Sotero (sic).

Page 2: “Aided by a broadly-based American discontent with the nation’s hardening corporate order, the Socialist Party increased its membership from a scanty 10,000 in 1902 to a respectable 109,000 int he early months of 1919.

Could this not be in response to the newly enacted Federal Reserve, designed to suck the wealth out of this country?

Whatever ...

[Yardstick]

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[Erik Latranyi]

I read a lamentation that socialism has not unified into a single force, instead, fighting against progressives, liberals, etc.

I think today, the unity is here, and, I fear, it is worldwide with the socialists working together.