Alinsky was a two bit con man who encouraged the world to be a petty scumbag like himself.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2489630/posts
“ALINSKY: .... I moved over to the table next to the cashier, exchanged a few words with her and then finished my coffee and got up to pay. “Gee, I’m sorry,” I said, “I seem to have lost my check.” She’d seen that all I had was a cup of coffee, so she just said, “That’s OK, that’ll be a nickel.” So I paid and left with my original nickel check still in my pocket and walked a few blocks to the next cafeteria in the same chain and ordered a big meal for a buck forty-five — and, believe me, in those days, for a buck forty-five I could have practically bought the [expletive deleted by mod] joint. I ate in a corner far away from the cashier, then switched checks and paid my nickel bill from the other place and left. So my eating troubles were taken care of.”
Can you believe? Alinsky thinks he’s “stickin’ it to the man.” All he’s doing is siffing a couple proles.
It’s infuriating to think anyone would be proud of an anecdote like that. Worse that anyone would regard it as a model of behavior.