Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
About the book
Saul D. Alinsky wrote his last book as a guide for a new generation of community organizers, and it came out in 1971, not long before his death. Drawing on his organizing work from 1939 onward, he explains how to unite low-income communities, the Have-Nots, into active organizations that can win social, political and economic power through effective, non-violent means. Each of its ten chapters carries a lesson, reaching beyond tactics into ethics, education, communication, the building of shared symbols and political philosophy. Alinsky also insists on the difference between realistic and rhetorical radicals. Government, labor, community and congregation-based groups have since applied his principles, and they keep recurring in political campaigns.
Ryan Holiday likens it to The 48 Laws of Power with an idealist, activist slant, a manual for pursuing a radical agenda through words and media rather than radical tactics.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
This is the 48 Laws of Power written in more of an idealist, activist tone. Alinsky was the liaison for many civil rights, union and student causes in the late 50’s and 60’s. He teaches how to implement your radical agenda without using radical tactics, how to disarm with words and media as opposed to arms and Utopian rhetoric.
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