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Rules for Radicals

a Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Mee2
Oct 11, 2012Mee2 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
A radical is a radical is a radical is a radical… No way one could sugar-coat it: Alinsky was a dirty player and his techniques are borderline illegal. His goal was to cause chaos and destroy the system, replacing it by communism. His philosophy reads bad, as bad as it is when applied. The Chicago Sun Times wrote about this book: “Alinsky’s techniques and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young Obama to work on Chicago’s Sea Side in 1980s. […] Alinsky impressed a young [Hillary] Clinton […].” Alinsky was a Jewish Liberal at war with the established Christian white communities in America. In Rules for Radicals he teaches that the community organizer “does not have a fixed truth—truth to him is relative and changing.” His goal was to teach “how to use the opponents’ own rules against them,” and “how to create mass organizations to seize power.”