white_wolf
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Sat Apr-23-11 10:05 PM
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Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky |
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Has here anyone read it? I heard that Grady Warren idiot complaining about it, and anything that pisses off the teabaggers has to be good.
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drm604
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Sat Apr-23-11 10:22 PM
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1. The right wingers have been going on about it for a while now. |
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It's obviously a talking point.
I never heard of Saul Alinsky or Rules for Radicals until they started yapping about it.
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The Blue Flower
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Sat Apr-23-11 10:34 PM
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2. It's a good road map for community organizing |
OHdem10
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Sat Apr-23-11 11:02 PM
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3. The Republicans (some teabaggers) studied Alinsky. They suely |
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learned to "agitate" very very quickly and I would say it worked.
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JaneQPublic
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Sat Apr-23-11 11:07 PM
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4. It was on the reading list for a college social work class I took in the 70s. |
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I have a copy here I just pulled out of a bookshelf. Thumbing through it, I don't see anything all that radical by today's standards. In fact, some of it is what the teabagger organizers used to start their "movement."
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Sun Apr-24-11 12:33 AM
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5. yes, it's a great book |
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and its lessons on motivating and reaching out to people are applicable way beyond community organizing
I am very discouraged that the right wing has made Alinsky into an evil demon (along with George Soros, another very intelligent and decent person)
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