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Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is a 1971 book by American community activist and writer Saul D. Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change. It was the last book written by Alinsky, and it was published shortly before his death in 1972.
Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is a widely used primer for organizers trying to create social change and political justice. These “rules” have also been adopted by many national, state and local politicians in their quest for power or support for issues which may not have anything to do with social change.
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know âthe difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.â Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question ...
Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. Alinsky’s reference to Machiavelli sets readers up for a high degree of ruthlessness and realpolitik, and the book does not disappoint.
RULES FOR RADICALS A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals SAUL D. ALINSKY RANDOM HOUSE New York
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is a 1971 book by American community activist and writer Saul D. Alinsky about how to successfully run a movement for change. It was the last book written by Alinsky, and it was published shortly before his death in 1972.
In Rules for Radicals, the iconic godfather of radical revolutionaries, Saul Alinsky, supplies the answer! While the chapters on tactics are eye-opening, humorous, and insightful, it is the first half of the book about the community organizers' motivations and temperament that are the most important and illuminating for me.
First 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...
RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Power is derived from 2 main sources – money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply.
“This country’s leading hell-raiser” (The Nation) shares his 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.”