Posted on 07/19/2013 5:51:18 AM PDT by kimtom
what this trouble maker Alinsky doesn’t get because of his lack of formal education, is that there is apparent authority (fro the office you managed to get into) and actual authority from the consent of the governed.
As the ruler of Romania found out, he had apparent authority, but very little actual authority. That is what the “rebels” in al quaida are finding out too.
Oh, he got it alright. He dedicated "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer, who he now shares a room with.
They forgot to mention Saul Alinsky and all his money
I know satan, who masquerades as an angel of light, dictated the garbage to his protege saul (not Paul notice)
Good point. May our current leader’s actual authority from the consent of the governed grow less and less with each passing moment.
your post illustrates (literally) the hidden story
Alinsky graduated from the University of Chicago in 1930. He had a formal education.
oh well he should have been smarter than he turned out to be. commies and rabble rousers rate as stupid in my book
Good article, and clarifying. They have been astroturfingnforndecadrs, if not more. My father has a book published by HUAC in the 1950s called “100 Things You Should Know About Communism”, and that book described a communist technique to take over a meeting: They would send 4 people, and the four would sit near the four corners of the room, and when one would say something the others would echo it. That way it seemed as though support for the Communists’ position was spread throughout the group. Power is what your opponent thinks you have.
I have changed my tagline.
“....That way it seemed as though support for the Communists position was spread throughout the group. Power is what your opponent thinks you have...”
It has always been the vocal few, and a mass of idiots..
Think; Oct 1917
I used to see people reading his book in the 1960s and thought I was a pile dream fantasy of losers. Now that we have a President surrounded by a cabal that use this book, and a former First Lady/Secretary of State who lives by it as well, I think it is critical that we understand what he said so that we can understand their objectives. I don’t laugh at them or underestimate them any more because too many people in important positions use his writings as a playbook.
And this author is right. They manufacture crowds and crises every bit as much as the Nazis did with the Reichstag fire, with the intention of stoking passions on their side to overcome the vast majority that don’t especially think about it but intuitively disagree with the radicals’ agenda.
That is what they are trying to do with Trayvon Martin. If they managed to ct a deal with the RINOs and get their candidates into the Department of Labor, the NLRB and the new Dodd-Frank bank federal reserve-funded agency, imagine what they will try to accomplish on amnesty and a myriad of other issues while we have been tricked into focussing on riots in our cities.
Yes. Communists always speak about the revolutionary vanguard. By definition a vanguard is a tiny group with a unified vision who assume the role of elitists leading the nation forward. Fundamentally it is not democratic because it dismisses the opinions of most people as being the product of minds whose consciousness has not been “raised”.
Nicolae and Elena had quite a Christmas Day surprise in '89.
Yep
“..By definition a {vanguard} is a tiny group with a unified vision who assume ...”
I agree with the use, I only know the military application.
Here is one example I found via Google:
“[T]he vanguard fighters of the working class must be armed with a conscious strategy, a revolutionary program, and a revolutionary vanguard party. Revolutionary class consciousness of the necessity of socialist revolution and of the methods needed for victory develops in the working class only by means of building the revolutionary party.
“The working class cannot spontaneously develop towards revolutionary consciousness even under the most revolutionary conditions. Revolutionary consciousness develops only through the fight for the revolutionary party. Revolutionary consciousness will not appear spontaneously in a revolutionary situation and the revolutionary party cannot be improvised on the basis of this spontaneous consciousness. To base the strategy of the workers vanguard on this assumption in the 1990s is criminal abstentionism. The socialist revolution is only made possible when the revolutionary party prepares the revolution: that is, when the preparatory period is used for the formation a Leninist vanguard party.”
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialistvoice/partyPR46.html
“..the working class must be armed with a conscious strategy, a revolutionary program..”
This is real stuff, and “they” take it serious, thus they are winning...
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