Sotomayor quoted America’s most famous socialist in her Princeton yearbook

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• I’m happy to quote Norman Thomas any time. I’m a pacifist socialist (like Norman) and a Princeton graduate (like Norman).

  • No such thing as a "pacifest socialist". Socialism is about subjigation, & that is done by force at some point. Whether it's about strict tax enforcement or from the point of a gun, coercion is involved to subjigate the population.

    I will say that socilaism is an anti-American ideology. It goes against most of what this nation was founded on.

• Albert Einstein was a socialist. Clearly everyone who quotes him is a socialist as well.

  • You know if it is true, that is a great point. You make a good point. I do quote Einstein or have in the past and I am not a socialist. However, I never knew that he was a socialist and my quotations are not coming from a socialist mindframe or usage.

    I will have to do some research on that. Not saying I don't believe you, just saying that overall I have no point of reference that allows me to know instantly that Einstein was a socialist. He was known for a lot of things, but a socialist is not one of the things that I know him for.

    He left NAZI Germany (a socialist government) and he didn't, as far as I know, seem to like nor defend it. So, if my conjecture is correct and most people on the planet are like me and they quote Einstein without knowing that he was a socialist then it is possible that the person/people who quote him are not quoting him out of a socialist mindframe at all. In other words, they are quoting him for other reasons, not because he was a socialist. Also they may not be socialists themselves.

    However in Sotomayor's case there is a large possibility that her quoting him comes from a socialist mindframe, especially if research indicates that the MOST important thing about this man's life was that he was a socialist. If this man was not known pretty much for anything else other than his socialist stand, I could hypothesize that Sotomayor is quoting him BECAUSE he is a socialist. Now granted... it still doesn't necessarily mean that she is/was a socialist, however I cannot see myself quoting Mao or Hitler or a KKK person in my yearbook before I give thanks to the people that have had part in my development during my tenure in school. It would be... odd. Hitler was an artist (a failed one) and all and I as an artist could quote him from an artist mindframe that is true, but considering that he is not that well known as an artist but as an evil dictator it would still be... odd.

    Just sayin'

    • KimmyQueen, isn't it possible that she's just using a good quote and not endorsing the ideas of the originator of the quote. Socialism in America is not the same thing as Nazism. You could benefit from an intense study of U.S. history. Did you know Abraham Lincoln corresponded with Karl Marx and that Marx admired Lincoln? Does that make Lincoln a communist?

      • Marx admired Lincoln because he freed the slaves. A familiar theme of Marx, no? I believe that they were pretty far apart philosophically otherwise.