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[rlmorel]

He must be one of the Catholic clergy that Alinsky bragged about leveraging.

Many were willing dupes, and I don't doubt there were a number who understood exactly what Alinsky was and what he stood for.

I always found it fascinating that he had to remove the dedication to Lucifer he put in his book, lest he offend the dupes in the clergy who bought into what he was preaching, but had it added back in during later printing editions when he considered it safe to do so.

What a raging scumbag. I hope he is warm now.

[spintreebob]

I became imersed in Alinsky in ‘64. Of the Clergy, sisters and brothers in the 23 Chicago Catholic Churches in my NCO Northwest Community Organization the religious were 45% with Msgr John Egan and Alinsky; 45% with the Democrat machine; 5% with anti-corruption Republicans Adamowski-Ogilvie-Kucharski and 5% non-political.

In many ways, Msgr Egan, who controlled the spending of money, the personnel assignments, etc in the Archdiocese was far to the left of Alinsky.

Alinsky had a faith in the common man and believed in going with the flow of the people. Alinsky was a populist. Msgr Egan believed he had been ordained by God to tell the common man what to believe, what to do and was against going with the flow. Msgr Egan was an elitist.

[rlmorel]

I respect you. I cannot find it in myself to say anything positive in any way about Alinsky after reading “Rules for Radicals”.

I found it both distressing and disgusting, felt like I needed to wash my hands after reading it.

I felt that every single philosophical fiber of it went against my grain.

Thanks for your 1st person input, though. I rarely get that when dealing with the Alinsky subject...