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“This country's leading hell-raiser...has set down some of the rules of the game. No one has had more experience or has been more successful at it than Alinsky.” —The Nation“Alinsky's techniques and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young [Barack] Obama to work on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s.... Alinsky impressed a young [Hillary] Clinton, who was growing up in Park Ridge at the time Alinsky was the director of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher.” —Charles E. Silberman “He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules.” —The Economist (London) “I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century.” —Jacques Maritain

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This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.

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Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Vintage (October 23, 1989)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0679721134

ISBN-13: 978-0679721130

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5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.7 out of 5 stars

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If you want to know the tactics of the political left, you must read this book! Read it carefully, and once you understand it, you will know how to break it. The left uses theses tactics everyday, particularly in the media. If you understand their rules you will be less likely to fall into their traps and better able to defeat them in conversation, in communication, in appearance, in reputation, in policy, and frankly in life. "Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril." -Sun Tzu 'The Art of War'. This book will teach you about the enemy.P.S. If you are interested in researching the political left, the Communist Manifesto is also a must read!Good Luck and God be with you!

For years, the radical left considered Saul Alinsky a soulmate. This book, published in 1971 just a year before he died, is still alternately admired or vilified by many across the political spectrum as the definitive playbook for aspiring political radicals who wish to organize opposition and engage in mass action. Alinsky himself is commonly considered a radical leftist, and his detractors consider him and many of the principles outlined in his book as unethical or hypocritical. However, the truth behind these now commonly accepted generalizations is a bit more nuanced.First of all, Alinsky himself seems clear from the outset that he does not advocate for any particular ideology, and in fact says that he detests and fears dogma. And truly, the precepts outlined in this book could be used by almost any movement that believes it can put “people power” to work. These are not just rules for “radicals” as the title suggests. In fact, the passage of time has rendered this title almost obsolete, as the very term “radical” no longer means what it once did. One only needs to read Alinsky to see how different it has become over the last 50 years. It is truly a propaganda victory for radicals that most seem to consider anything good for the masses as an inherently “radical” cause.When compared to the schemes, misinformation, and antics of today’s better known political figures, Alinsky reads like a veritable patriot in many places. When compared with many of today’s most prominent activists, he can sometimes sound almost like a voice of reason. Much of the book is given over to the central issues of effective human communication and organizing. In these respects, it is eminently rational. Consider the following from the Preface:“…there are certain central concepts of action in human politics that operate regardless of the scene or the time…[that] …make the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one who uses the tired old words and slogans, calls the police “pig” or “white fascist racist” or “motherf$%er.”…“Even the most elementary grasp of the fundamental idea that one communicates within the experience of his audience—and gives full respect to the other’s values—would have ruled out attacks on the American flag. The responsible organizer would have known that it is the establishment that has betrayed the flag while the flag, itself, remains the glorious symbol of America’s hopes and aspirations…”Most of Alinsky’s detractors label him a moral relativist and claim he is unethical probably because of his position that the ends can always justify the means. In his own words: "This grasp of the duality of all phenomena is vital in our understanding politics. It frees one from the myth that one approach is positive and another negative. There is no such thing in life. One man's positive is another man's negative. The description of any procedure as "positive" or "negative" is the mark of a political illiterate." Chapter 2, “Of Means and Ends” gets into this issue in exquisite detail. Here Alinsky has included as illustrative of his views an interesting narrative about Mahatma Gandhi, and although some readers will not agree and may label it “rationalization,” it is a very realistic and persuasive discussion.Chapter 5, “Communication,” contains some of the most important ideas in the book. One of the most important principles (alluded to above) is that “people only understand things in terms of their experience. When you can’t find the point in the others experience at which he can receive and understand, you must create the experience for him.”In Chapter 7, “Tactics,” the reader will find the actual list of “rules” that the title alludes to. Strangely, I doubt that most readers will find these rules particularly controversial or immoral.It is hard to tell whether Chapter 8, “The Genesis of Tactic Proxy,” is wrong or is merely poorly stated. Alinsky seems to suggest that all tactics are “accidental” or “response to reaction,” i.e., unplanned. What he may want to convey is the idea that some scenarios play out in unexpected ways, and one must take an opportunistic approach when a good moment presents itself.In the final chapter, “The Way Ahead,” Alinsky makes an interesting observation that seems eerily relevant to the 2016 election cycle. He opines that even if all low income parts of the population were organized, they would still not be powerful enough to drive significant, basic, needed changes, and that they would need allies. He believes organizing the lower middle class is the obvious answer. He goes on to describe what he sees as their typical values (and it is somewhat depressing to realize how little has changed in the time since this was written). These are the so-called “deplorables” that were left behind and ended up swinging the 2016 election.Regardless of political tendencies and what one may have read or heard about Saul Alinsky, this book is worth a read provided that it is read with a critical eye and a challenging attitude. It helps critical readers understand the tactics being deployed in the political arena, and also give them an interesting historical perspective on how much or little things have changed in the last 50 years.

This is a very important work for anyone who's truly interested in "human behavior"and human psychology on many levels, and especially how most people, no matter who they are, can be manipulated. Much of what Alinsky has here has been known for hundreds if not thousands of years, but he organizes his data clearly and makes it very easy to grasp. He was a real "communicator" and probably an outstanding teacher. What he writes is readily recognizable as being implemented with real expertise by U.S. (and E.U.) controlling power groups to an astonishing, and vividly apparent, degree. Vital to know and sadly depressing.

I only wish that I would have read this book many years ago. The truth that every white man needs to know and understand because you are the target, you are being provoked at every possible opportunity and you are under a microscope. They are just waiting for your reaction. "Taking a knee" is a great example of what this book is all about. "Hope and Change" really means "divide and conquer". Now I understand why race relations have never improved.

a scary view into a warped mind. a must read too.

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