Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic RadicalsFirst published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition. |
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User Review - rsairs - LibraryThingI don't make a very good groupie, and I have an aversion to gurus and their charms. For the most part Alinsky's world has been over for almost a half century. An enduring lesson might be that if the ... Read full review
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User Review - willszal - LibraryThingWhy didn't I learn about Alinsky back in school? I've been flirting with both the philosophical and practical significance of organizing and activism for sometime now. Alinksy makes the irrefutable ... Read full review
Contents
The Purpose | 3 |
Of Means and Ends | 24 |
A Word About Words | 48 |
The Education of an Organizer | 64 |
Communication | 81 |
In the Beginning | 98 |
Tactics | 126 |
The Genesis of Tactic Proxy | 165 |
The Way Ahead | 184 |
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Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals Saul David Alinsky Limited preview - 1989 |