Alinsky's Rules for Radicals

STRATEGIC PUBLIC RELATIONS ^ | 1993, 2001 | Craig Miyamoto

[Atchafalaya]

Patience, I bet if she runs in 08 copies will appear.

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Wellesely College is drafting a new course on Gramsci.

[nunoste]

Juvenile hogwash. Still, one should be familiar with it so that they can identify and defang it. Do you always agree with the government? This seems particularly useful if, for example, you want to do something about our immigration problem. Protest and reform isn't always a socialist tactic.

[Archon of the East]

Wellesely College is drafting a new course on Gramsci.

Clearly even more open than in the past, communism is alive and well. I can't help but think that Pat Buchanan is correct when he says we are losing, regardless of any small victories. Do people understand the consequences of a system that reduces everything to conflict with no more eternal or even enlightened end than oppressed vs oppressor? All for what. Why are they willingly giving up their Liberty? Destroy the family and people will no longer have children. What kind of people promote this, why do they promote this? I think we know.

[Darnright]

>Wellesely College is drafting a new course on Gramsci.<

Now there's a comforting thought. And I bet dollars to doughnuts it'll not be taught from a conservative standpoint.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

These "Rules for Radicals" should be read by everyone who is concerned about the leftists' takeover of political and social life. Anyone concerned about "gay" rights, the ACLU, read freedom of speech, association, and religious expression should read this. I read Horowitz' "Radical Son" a couple of years ago and it was an eye-opener, I highly recommend it.

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I was just telling mrs lj about Gramsci today. Unfortunately what I know was explained in two minutes. I need to read up on him and his works, and who is following him today.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

RULE 4:

"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

Compare with Theodore Roosevelt

There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

[ken21]

>...an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty...<

how better to describe the liberal-socialists that you see day to day?

thanks for digging this up!

i’d forgotten that i’d posted it.

[1elder1]

Socialist Central Planning Government attract thugs and blackgards to take over top positions; Clintons Obamas prove the theory.

[ken21]

yep.

remember hillary in the snow in d.c. carrying her bible from the white house to church?

and now she’s ganging up with moslems against israel.