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To: OPS4
Thanks for that link.

From this article:

“Alinsky was about organizing ordinary people so they could get a seat at the table rather than getting crumbs or no crumbs at all when public policies were decided,” said Horwitt

From the link:

"The first step in community organization is community disorganization (emphasis mine). The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new." p.116

"An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent... He must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. Out of this mechanism, a new community organization arises.... "The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. p.117

Bottom line: what the author suggests is total bullspit.

20 posted on 01/23/2012 12:01:44 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

>Bottom line: what the author suggests is total bullspit.<

The article itself IS an Alinsky tactic IMO.


23 posted on 01/24/2012 9:07:44 AM PST by Califreak ("Burnt By The Sun")
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