Posted on 04/26/2018 12:44:29 PM PDT by txnativegop
For those FReepers who might be looking for a copy of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.
I would prefer the actual book, but I have never been able find one and I do not order anything online.
So I will make do with the copy I found at Archive.
I think it is important that all FReepers know this work.
Forgot to add this. You can get the book online nonelectrical for less. It is nice to have a book where you can underline and look at things again you have found of interest.
I love electronic media due to its instant availability covering many subjects. If I am really serious about something it is nice to have a hard copy in hand.
I am old but deft with electronic media. I guess I am just old school.
I’ll bet Hillary has it committed to memory.
without a doubt
Is there any other kind of reading material when written by a raging leftist? LOL
A full confession would be nice.
True, but a confession would imply a personal sense of responsibility for one’s actions, which Leftists are incapable acknowledging.
“nonelectrical “
My stupid fingers did it again. It should have said, “electronically.”
auto-correct never works that way you want it to, does it? LOL
Sorry...have no need for it.I see “Rules For Radicals” in action every time I drive by Wellesley College and also on my regular visits to Harvard Square.
Many libraries have it to loan for free. You’ll need to register.
I would argue that Alinsky HAD to be corrupt in order to come up with such immoral tactics.
I would say the easiest way would be to visit the office of any demonrat.
Your question is the answer.
How seriously can you take a guy who celebrates Lucifer the Rebel and ignores his works? That seems to me to sum up Alinsky in a sentence. But he was an organizational genius, according to William F. Buckley, and it is useful to study his tactics because they're going to be used on you.
Already have it.
And....mine is signed by Gov. Sarah Palin.
Gotta study the enemy’s playbook.
:-)
10-4. They used his rules on Sessions, and it worked.
I forget the agency’s name, But Mark Levin has told the tale at least a few times, that when he was working for Reagan / Ed Meese, he was wandering through the warehouse for some government agency on other business, he found pallet loads of a book...
Out of curiosity, he looked at one, saw that it was “Rules For Radicals”, which he had never heard of before, and made a point of looking into the matter.
It turned out that this agency had been handing out thousands of copies of the book for years, at taxpayer expense, to every lefty ‘community organizer’ they could find.
Alinsky was a radical, but he was a "bottom-up" guy, not a "top down" guy. He was trying to organize communities, often against government bureaucracies as well as against corporations.
I guess that's why he's hard to pin down, because he wasn't so much concerned with trying to get government to do things for or to people as to find ways that people could organize against the powers that be.
On the other hand, he was pretty cynical about the uses of power. That's something that can very easily go from cynicism about how those in power use their influence, to cynically wielding power oneself.
Maybe Alinsky is one thing and politicians who read Alinsky are something more dangerous. Or maybe it's inevitable that when you get enough community organizers together in one room, they start organizing to get things from the government. In any event, Alinsky is a very ambiguous figure.
James Burnham's The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom is also available at archive.org community texts. I'd recommend looking into that after Alinsky to see whether or not realism or cynicism about power can be a good thing, as well as a bad thing.
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