[lbo-talk] Elena Kagan, socialist

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon May 17 10:46:43 PDT 2010


On Mon, 17 May 2010, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Yes, but that conclusion really sounds like someone who was sympathetic, and
> not just a disinterested scholar.

Yeah, but it doesn't point to a socialist trajectory. Concluding that the American left is a self-destroying sectarian snakepit and that unity must be our first principle is the classical first step on the road to the liberal centrism that sees everything to its left as divisive craziness.

Michael



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