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====Saul Alinsky====

====Saul Alinsky====

[[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.]]

[[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.]]

By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June, 1969, she appeared in ''Life'' Magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism<ref>Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014).  [http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969/ "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15"]. ''Time'' magazine website/Life/Photography.</ref>.  She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1946) [http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf ''Reveille for Radicals''] (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press).</ref>, a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him.   

By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June, 1969, she appeared in ''Life'' Magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism<ref>Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014).  [http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969/ "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15"]. ''Time'' magazine website/Life/Photography.</ref>.  She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1946). [http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf ''Reveille for Radicals''] (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press).</ref>, a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him.   

In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, ''Rules For Radicals'' was going to be published:

In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, ''Rules For Radicals'' was going to be published:

:''"When is that new book coming out — or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation? I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people. You are being rediscovered again as the New Left-type politicos are finally beginning to think seriously about the hard work and mechanics of organizing. I seem to have survived law school, slightly bruised, with my belief in and zest for organizing intact."''

:''"When is that new book coming out — or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation? I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people. You are being rediscovered again as the New Left-type politicos are finally beginning to think seriously about the hard work and mechanics of organizing. I seem to have survived law school, slightly bruised, with my belief in and zest for organizing intact."''

''Rules For Radicals''<ref>https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals</ref> outlined twelve basic rules<ref>http://www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals</ref> for overthrowing a government, and Rodham read it voraciously.  Alinsky's methods included "demonizing" and "ridiculing" the opposition, using the expertise of poor as a weapon, and using lies and innuendo to their fullest advantage.  Alinsky wrote:

''Rules For Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1971).  [https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals "Rules for Radicals"] (New York: Random House).  Reprinted at Internet Archive.</ref> outlined twelve basic rules<ref>http://www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals</ref> for overthrowing a government, and Rodham read it voraciously.  Alinsky's methods included "demonizing" and "ridiculing" the opposition, using the expertise of poor as a weapon, and using lies and innuendo to their fullest advantage.  Alinsky wrote:

:''"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...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...."''<ref>''Rules For Radicals'', pp. 10-11</ref>

:''"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...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...."''<ref>''Rules For Radicals'', pp. 10-11</ref>