The title of [Hillary] Clinton's thesis was "There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model." In this title she had identified the single most important Alinsky contribution to the radical cause -- his embrace of political nihilism. An SDS radical once wrote, "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." In other words, the cause of a political action -- whether civil rights or women's rights -- is never the real cause; women, blacks and other "victims" are only instruments in the larger cause, which is power. Battles over rights and other issues, according to Alinsky, should never be seen as more than occasions to advance the real agenda, which is the accumulation of power and resources in radical hands. Power is the all-consuming goal of Alinsky's politics
"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."An the insightful Ted Cruz pointed at this: "[Democratic debate] reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks." That is: the Left, the Democrats, the deceptively-named Liberals, are no less than neo-Mensheviks - seeking power via the "inevitable" revolution built upon (i.e.: stealing) the successes of capitalism for no purpose other than acquiring power; one need only wonder if they "have the courage to recognize their own motives ... the object of power is power."George Orwell
1984