The title of 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.
Thank you Jim. One of the Conservative commentators spoke of it, and that was where I remembered reading it. It plainly explains why it’s so easy to find hypocritical silences from Leftist pressure groups on the topics and incidents that should be right up their alley.