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Rules for Radicals
By Saul Alinsky - 1971
Hillary
Clinton's 1969 Political Science Thesis("There is Only the Fight") refers to an earlier
version of Alinsky’s training manual. "In 1946,” she wrote,
"Alinsky's first book, Reveille for Radicals, was
published."
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Background information
"Obama learned his lesson
well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being
applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the
Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we
approach his 100th birthday." --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist
Saul Alinsky
Obama helped fund 'Alinsky
Academy':
"The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from
1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital to the
Midwest Academy.... Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William
Ayers,founder
of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.... 'Midwest describes
itself as 'one of the nation's oldest and best-known schools for community
organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive
social change.'... Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community
organizing."
Hillary, Obama
and the Cult of Alinsky: "True
revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut
their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky
viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches,
unions and political parties.... Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out
because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is
simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain
power.
"Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent
years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year
stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group
called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to
Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches
in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an
instant churchgoer." (By Richard Poe, 11-27-07)
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Opening page - Dedication
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to
the very first radical:
from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man
who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he
at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
Prologue
"The Revolutionary force today has two targets, moral as well
as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the
idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, 'Burn the
system down!' They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions
about the way to change our world. It is to this point that I have written this
book."
1. The Purpose
In this book we are concerned with how to create mass
organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the
democratic dream of equality, justice, peace.... "Better to die on your
feet than to live on your knees.' This means revolution." p.3
"Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political
circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to
avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of
their choosing." p.6
"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are
caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he
logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third
stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the
proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of
communism." p.10
"An organizer working in and for an open society is in an
ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth -- truth to
him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and
changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can
respond to the realities of the widely different situations...." pp.10-11
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Notes on Saul Alinsky and Neo-Marxism:
Alinsky's
tactics were based, not on Stalin's revolutionary violence, but on the
Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic
processrather than a
bloody revolution, Gramsci's transformational Marxism was so subtle that few
even noticed the deliberate changes.
Like
Alinsky, Mikhail Gorbachevfollowed Gramsci, not Lenin. In fact, Gramsci aroused
Stalins's wrath by suggesting that Lenin's revolutionary plan wouldn't work
in the West. Instead the primary assault would be on Biblical absolutes and
Christian values, which must be crushed as a social force before the new face
of Communism could rise and flourish. Malachi Martin gave us a progress
report:
"By 1985, the influence of
traditional Christian philosophy in the West was weak and negligible....
Gramsci's master strategy was now feasible. Humanly speaking, it was no
longer too tall an order to strip large majorities of men and women in the
West of those last vestiges that remained to them of Christianity's
transcendent God."
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2. Of Means and Ends [Forget
moral or ethical considerations]
"The end is what you want, the means is how you get it.
Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises.
The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic
terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the
possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether
they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will
work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody." p.24
"The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the
ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search
themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but
real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of
any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and
wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for
fantasy of the world as it should be...." pp.25-26
"The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war
the end justifies almost any means...." p.29
"The seventh rule... is that generally success or failure is
a mighty determinant of ethics...." p.34
"The tenth rule... is you do what you can with what you have
and clothe it with moral garments.... It involves sifting the multiple factors which combine in
creating the circumstances at any given time... Who, and how many will support
the action?... If weapons are needed, then are appropriate d weapons available?
Availability of means determines whether you will be underground or above
ground; whether you will move quickly or slowly..." p.36
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Notes: Apparently, Michelle
Obama referred
to these words during her Democratic National Convention speech:
"She said, 'Barack stood up
that day,' talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, 'and spoke words
that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about 'The world as it is' and
'The world as it should be…' And, 'All of us driven by a simple belief that
the world as it is just won't do – that we have an obligation to, fight for
the world as it should be."
Do you wonder who -- or whose
values -- should determine what "the world... should be?"
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4. The Education of the Organizer
"To the organizer, imagination... is the dynamism that starts
and sustains him in his whole life of action as an organizer. It ignites and
feeds the force that drives him to organize for change....
"The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions....
"The organizers searching with a free and open mind void of certainty, hating dogma, finds laughter not just a way to maintain his sanity but also a key to understanding life."pp.74-75
"The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions....
"The organizers searching with a free and open mind void of certainty, hating dogma, finds laughter not just a way to maintain his sanity but also a key to understanding life."pp.74-75
"...the organizer must be able to split himself into two
parts -- one part in the arena of action where he polarizes the issue to 100 to
nothing, and helps to lead his forces into conflict, while the other part knows
that when the time comes for negotiations that it really is only a 10 percent difference."
p.78
"...the organizer is constantly creating new out of the old.
He knows that all new ideas arise from conflict; [See Dialectic Process] that every time man as had a new idea it
has been a challenge to the sacred ideas of the past and the present and
inevitably a conflict has raged." p.79
5. Communication [Notice the
emphasis on conflict, dialogue, relationships, etc. Team "service" is
essential to building strong relationships through "common
involvements"]
"And so the guided questioning goes on without anyone
losing face or being left out of the decision-making. Every weakness of every
proposed tactic is probed by questions.... Is this manipulation?
Certainly...." p.88
"One of the factors that changes what you can and can't
communicate is relationships. There are sensitive areas that one does not touch
until there is a strong personal relationship based on common involvements. Otherwise the other party turns off and
literally does not hear....
"Conversely, if you have a good
relationship, he is very receptive.... For example, I have always believed that
birth control and abortion are personal rights to be exercised by the individual.
If, in my early days when I organized... neighborhood in Chicago, which was 95
per cent Roman Catholic, I had tried to communicate this, even through the
experience of the residents, whose economic plight was aggravated by large
families, that would have been the end of my relationship with the community.
That instant I would have been stamped as an enemy of the church and all
communication would have ceased.
"Some years later, after
establishing solid relationships, I was free to talk about anything.... By then
the argument was no longer limited to such questions as, 'How much longer do
you think the Catholic Church can hang on to this archaic notion and still
survive?' ...the subject and nature of the discussion would have been
unthinkable without that solid relationship." pp.93-94
6. In the Beginning: The
Process of Power [Notice the compromise needed to build the power base. Yet,
since pragmatism has eroded all values, it's simply a matter of ends justifying
means. It's not unlike churches that attract members through the world's
entertainment -- then continue to soften or hide Truth in order to keep them
happy and lure more.]
"From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives,
dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he
calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no
major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his 'tactics'
are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around
one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization,
whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor
Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals."
"Change comes from power, and power
comes from organization." p.113
"The first step in community organization is community
disorganization. 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
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"A change toward a
higher level of group performance is frequently short lived: after a “shot in
the arm”, group life soon returns to the previous level. This indicates that
it does not suffice to define the objective of a planned change in group performance
as the reaching of a different level. Permanency of the new level, or
permanency for a desired period, should be included in the objective. A
successful change includes therefore three aspects:
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"An organizer must stir up dissatisfactionand 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. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict." p.117
"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. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict." p.117
"Process tells us how. Purpose tells us why.
But in reality, it is academic to draw a line between them, they are part of a
continuum.... Process is really purpose." p.122
7. Tactics
"Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human
beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. ... Here our
concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away
from the Haves." p.126
Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):
Always remember the first rule of power tactics (pps.127-134):
1. "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy
thinks you have."
2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an
action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is
confusion, fear and retreat.... [and] the collapse of communication.
3. "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens
all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by
seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can
kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the
Christian church can live up to Christianity."
5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost
impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which
then reacts to your advantage."
6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can
sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time...."
8. "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions,
and utilize all events of the period for your purpose."
9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing
itself."
10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of
operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is
this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that
are essential for the success of the campaign."
11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will
break through into its counterside... every positive has its negative."
12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive
alternative."
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize
it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded]
as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target
and 'frozen.'...
"...any target can always say, 'Why
do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze
the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then,
as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the
'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their
support of the target...'
"One acts decisively only in the
conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the
other." (pps.127-134)
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Saul
Alinksky, Rules for Radicals, Vintage Books, New York, 1989.
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Additional Notes:
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: "Known as the 'father of modern American
radicalism,' Saul D. Alinsky (1909-1972) developed strategies and tactics that
take the enormous, unfocused emotional energy of grassroots groups and
transform it into effective anti-government and anti-corporate activism. ...
Some of these rules are ruthless, but they work."
Article by Phyllis Schalfly titled "Alinski's
Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era," posted at www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277(2-2-09)
"Alinsky's second
chapter, called Of Means and Ends, craftily poses many difficult moral
dilemmas, and his 'tenth rule of the ethics of means and ends' is: 'you do what
you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.' He
doesn't ignore traditional moral standards or dismiss them as unnecessary. He
is much more devious; he teaches his followers that 'Moral rationalization is
indispensable at all times of action whether to justify the selection or the
use of ends or means.'...
"The qualities Alinsky
looked for in a good organizer were:
- ego ("reaching for the highest level for which man
can reach — to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God"),
- curiosity (raising "questions that agitate, that
break through the accepted pattern"),
- irreverence ("nothing is sacred"; the
organizer "detests dogma, defies any finite definition of
morality"),
- imagination ("the fuel for the force that keeps an
organizer organizing"),
- a sense of humor ("the most potent weapons known
to mankind are satire and ridicule"), and an
- organized personality with confidence in presenting the
right reason for his actions only "as a moral rationalization after
the right end has been achieved.'...
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or
problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer
'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the
latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He
must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless
there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer
must stir up
dissatisfactionand discontent.'"
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