BREAKING: We Have Elena Kagan’s College Thesis

redstate.com ^ | May 13, 2010 | Erick Erickson

[Free ThinkerNY]

This proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist.

The woman declares that socialists must stick together instead of fracture in order to advance a socialist agenda, which Kagan advocates.

[SeattleBruce]

Absolutely.

[Diogenesis]

Given that she defended plagiarists with the imprimatur
of Harvard Law School, one wonders what she
plagiarized in HER thesis.

[TheConservator]

To my eternal shame, I voted for Anderson instead of Reagan when I was an undergrad in 1980.

Voted Reagan the second time around, though. Had wised up some by then.

[moose2004]

“The lame stream media will play up the “youthful college thoughts” angle”

As opposed to Bob McDonnell’s thesis.

[Clint N. Suhks]

She wrote about socialism?

Why am I not surprised?

[ETL]

From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: ELENA KAGAN

• Served as President Bill Clinton's Associate White House Counsel
• Former dean of Harvard Law School
• Sought to overturn the Solomon Amendment, a law that denies federal funding to any university that bars military recruiters from its campus
• Believes that the military should open its ranks and barracks to homosexuals, without restriction
• Was appointed U.S. Solicitor General by President Barack Obama in January 2009

As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled

"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933."

In the "Acknowledgments" section of her work, she specifically thanked her 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.” In the body of the thesis, Kagan wrote:

"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nation’s established parties?...

"Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. 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."

Lots more on Kagan here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398

[workerbee]

A lot of people change their opinions after college.

And they are typically known as Republicans.

Or are you seriously trying to give a BamBam court pick the, ahem, benefit of the doubt?

[trtdenver]

Well knock me over with a feather. I’m sure it is “compassionate socialism” though. What the hell country do we live in? I hardly recognize it anymore. November can’t come soon enough.

[redgolum]

True.

But then, they are really advancing the same agenda. We need to be honest about this. The GOP and DNC have the same overall goals, but differ on implementation.

[woweeitsme]

Have we ever seen Obama’s Thesis?

[excopconservative]

Well we knew she was a radical socialist. Here’s another radical idea — Let’s see that no one who votes for her confirmation gets reelected.

[I_Like_Spam]

My own first vote was more shameful than either of yours.

Jimmy Carter in 1976.

[Indy Pendance]

You know, justices can be impeached.

[ncfool]

I could not download it. The server was too slow. But everybody needs to be posting it and emailing the PDF to any radio station, blogger and to all the GOP member’s of the house and senate telling them to vote against her as a Justice.

AMERICA IS FALLING INTO THE ABYSS.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP

[ncfool]

Her yearning for NYC radicals were Ayers and Dorhn. I bet they are very friendly with each other. This is not a revolution that America wants. We need to stop this group now.

Where are our leaders in AMERICA.

[Deo volente]

My own first vote was more shameful than either of yours. Jimmy Carter in 1976.

I got you all beat in the shame department. McGovern, 1972.

[ETL]

Have we ever seen Obama’s Thesis?

He supposedly wrote an undergrad thesis on "nuclear disarmament" (at the height of the Cold War).

Then there's this:

Obama Espoused Radical Views in College [advocated revolution]
Steve Malzberg - WOR News Talk Radio 710 ^ | February 12, 2010 | Ronald Kessler

Posted on Friday, February 12, 2010 7:33:56 PM by ETL

Dr. John C. Drew, a grant writing consultant in Laguna Niguel, Calif., tells Newsmax he met Obama in 1980 when Obama was a sophomore at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Drew had just graduated from Occidental and was attending graduate school at Cornell University.

During Christmas break, Drew says he was at Grauman-Boss’ home in Palo Alto when Obama came over with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, his roommate from Pakistan.

“Barack [Obama] and Hasan showed up at the house in a BMW, and then we went to a restaurant together,” Drew says. “We had a nice meal, and then we came back to the house and smoked cigarettes and drank and argued politics.”

For the next several hours, they discussed Marxism.

“He [Obama] was arguing a straightforward Marxist-Leninist class-struggle point of view, which anticipated that there would be a revolution of the working class, led by revolutionaries, who would overthrow the capitalist system and institute a new socialist government that would redistribute the wealth,” says Drew, who says he himself was then a Marxist.

“The idea was basically that wealthy people were exploiting others,” Drew says. “That this was the secret of their wealth, that they weren’t paying others enough for their work, and they were using and taking advantage of other people. He was convinced that a revolution would take place, and it would be a good thing.”

Drew concluded that Obama thought of himself as “part of an intelligent, radical vanguard that was leading the way towards this revolution and towards this new society.” ..."

Referring to Obama’s quote from “Dreams of My Father” that he associated with Marxist professors, Drew says, “What he’s not saying is that he was in 100 percent total agreement with those Marxist professors. When you understand that, Obama’s later associations and policies make more sense, including why he was taken in by Rev. Wright’s ideology.”

[TribalPrincess2U]

Of course she’s a socialist. 0 wouldn’t pick anyone who wasn’t.

[ohioWfan]

Do you think Obama knows anyone who isn't a socialist/Marxist/Maoist/pervert/terrorist??

I'm beginning to think not.....