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Excerpts From Hillary’s Wellesley Thesis, “THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT… An Analysis of the Alinsky Model”

Shit! How did I miss this!? I clearly need to expand my blogsphere!
Was scanning through some websites and came across this information about Hillary Rodham’s 1969 senior thesis at Wellesley College.
I found on the blog Jeremayakovka, (adding to my blogroll) this is several months old but I don’t remember seeing on any of the major blogs I check out each day.
Anywho, fascinating stuff check it out and pass it on.

Here is one of the most anticipated revelations yet of the 2008 presidential election: Hillary Rodham’s 1969 senior thesis at Wellesley College.Back in 1993, shortly after she acceded to the role of First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband requested that Wellesley guard her thesis from public scrutiny — a request to which the college administration assented. Since then efforts to gain access to “THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT” have proven less than successful. If what I have received is, however, a true and accurate copy, then public access to the Democratic presidential candidate’s initial intellectual formation has finally arrived.

The nearly 100-page inquiry into the thought and activism of radical leftwing organizer Saul Alinsky can be considered, until proven otherwise, young Ms. Rodham’s first complete set of intellectual fingerprints — her first carbon (her first carbon copy, that is) intellectual footprint. Depending on how capably readers evaluate the 1969 document and trace its influence, “THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT” might prove one of the most authoritative standards by which to judge Hillary Rodham Clinton’s subsequent record — her professional, political, and even personal record.

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Below are some excerpts, Gentle Reader, so that you may begin to take a better measure of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Themes that emerge include:
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* a lifelong dedication to fashioning a new American radicalism by braiding together previous strains of political protest and philosophy in a bid to accumulate power (power — which Alinsky terms the very essence of life) (pp. 4-7);

* cynically cloaking self-interest beneath an external show of morality, all the while expecting redemption through a radical faith in the eventual manifestation of the goodness of man (p. 10);

* conflation of the rule of American democracy with the realization of egalitarian — even socialist and revolutionary — agendas (pp. 10-11);

* a need for rethinking the idea of community* and devising new strategies to achieve democratic equality (p. 65); and

* commitment to the eradication of powerless poverty and the injection of meaning into affluence. [Alinksy’s] new aspect, national planning, derives from the necessity of entrusting social change to institutions, specifically the United States Government (p. 73).

*: Communitarian theorist Amitai Etzioni, along with Bill Clinton the subject of that link, is referenced on p.65 of the thesis.

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“Hillary’s Stripes On Parade Again - In the ’60s, A Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out In Letters“

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