Publication Date:October 23, 1989 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Advocating rebelsAugust 28, 2010 Robert Cooper 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the book still revevant despite being written 40 years ago. I don't agree with its content but thats why I bought it. Its probably useful to rearrange social structure.
THANK YOU AMERICA !!!August 25, 2010 James M Feazell(Deltona, FL - USA) 1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Americans are so stupid. I hate America, but I love this country! Alinsky shows clearly how a group with no money and no power and really no resources of any kind can empower itself, pulling oneself up by his own bootstraps to the highest and mightiest levels of power. Look at how we've taken this country, LITERALLY! Victory is already in our hands but there is still MUCH left for the taking. The once mighty USA cowers before us today, and will BOW before us tomorrow (some already have.) I love to watch as they claim "victory" whilst taking off their shoes to submit them for inspection just to board an airplane, or surrender their very posessions for examination just to enter some public buildings. FEAR is the key to success. Though we may lose many battles ahead, the losses only serve to obscure the reality that we are winning the war.
"Rules For Radicals" is the single most important tool in motivating the classes to rally to the causes that ultimately empower us. When one has a purpose defined by self (or worse by "god"), then we have little power over them. Fortunately, most are SEEKING purpose, and through organization WE are the ones to define that purpose and, in doing so, are empowered to motivate countless masses to do our bidding. Consider that every "victory" amongst the infadels only serves to obscure that each "step" forward is really a giant leap in retreat. We don't need to take their country from them, merely allow them to give it to us. READ THIS BOOK and apply its lessons.
Allahu Akbar!
Preachy, but could be worth your time.August 23, 2010 Richard Telofski 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky is a bit long-winded and preachy. But, if you can hang in there with the sermonizing, Saul reveals some terrific insights into the strategic mind of the activist.
Published in 1971, one who is familiar with activist strategies and tactics can see how Saul's rules have been applied in the intervening years. If you're an activist monitor and forecaster, the observations may stand as testimony to what activists may do in the future. Thus, the book is worth the time of anyone involved with activism on either side of the protest placard.
LUCIFER, the first radicalAugust 23, 2010 S. Collinson(Chesapeake Beach, MD United States) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Alinsky's quote at the beginning of the book about Lucifer being the first true radical that got his own kingdom pretty much tells you where this writing came from. Rating this book is difficult because it is a book that will confuse and possible corrupt the youth of America since it is on NEA's recommended reading list. Much of the book comes down to the notion that "an organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent" and "clothe it with moral garments". It really doesn't matter what the issue is; just use the most extreme position on the opposite side of it and say you are either 100% for that extreme position or you are with me because I am morally right... Alinsky teaches and also uses this book to manipulate the youth that do not have much world knowledge to progress his agenda to go to a socialist state. As the books states, once you achieve what you want, it creates new problems then you will need to create new dissatisfaction and discontent to keep working as an organizer.
It is easy to see how the government today is using this book in its policies. It is not surprising that many of today's political leaders and news media refer to Alinsky as a hero. "The organizer is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach - to create, to be a "great creator," to play GOD."
I would suggest reading the book to see how the government and news media is manipulating the country by using the tactics presented in this book.
This Alinsky obsession is crazyAugust 21, 2010 billybob(Jefferson, ME USA) 1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a longtime lefty. I had never heard of Saul Alinsky until recently. Like many recent bizarre obsessions of the right(the Cloward-Piven (sp?) strategy, the New Black Panthers, etc.), the huge importance of Saul Alinsky was news to me.
Wondering what all the hubbub was about, I bought the book and gave it a whirl. Alinsky isn't terribly radical for one. He is most certainly not a Marxist. And the book is definitely a product of its time (released in 1971 I think). The prologue discusses the "generation gap" of the 1960s, and has the tone of an older guy trying to connect with a younger counter-culture generation. It's dated and a little comical.
I look at the reviews however, and it seems right-wingers are buying the book in droves convinced that Alinsky is some towering evil influence whose ideas serve as the puppet strings of those bent on the destruction of all that is good and holy. Though a halfway careful reading of the book should be enough to dispel anyone of that notion, I guess if you are determined to find an evil plot to 'destroy America' buried in the text, you can find it. If nothing else, if these numerous reviews reflect actual purchases, the Alinsky estate must be doing well. But to all those thinking they've found the magic cookie unveiling the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy, you haven't. The idea that Alinsky is this huge influence on the left (past or present) is purely a creation of the right-wing media. He's not that big a deal. Honestly! There are far more influential writers and thinkers on the left than Alinsky. That's just a fact. Your paranoia over this little book is totally unjustified.
It would be helpful if the right would aim its critical arrows at the left that actually exists rather than the left that is conjured up by TV and radio blowhards. There is nothing hidden about the actual left. You can read everything from liberal to socialist websites that are quite out in the open about what they advocate if you want to find out what the "left" is thinking. You can agree or disagree with what you read there. Then perhaps future discussions can be about reality rather than than the alternate conspiracy-ruled universe peddled by Beck et al.
