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''Rules For Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1971).  [https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals ''Rules for Radicals''] (New York: Random House).  Archived at Internet Archive.</ref> outlined twelve basic rules<ref>Ibid, [http://www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals "12 rules for radicals" (excerpt)].  Reprinted at Best of Beck website/Activism.</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).  Archived at Internet Archive.</ref> outlined twelve basic rules<ref>Ibid, [http://www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals "12 rules for radicals" (excerpt)].  Reprinted at Best of Beck website/Activism.</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>Ibid., 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>Ibid., pp. 10-11.</ref>

In her 1969 thesis entitled "There Is Only The Fight"<ref>Clinton, Hillary (1969). [https://nukegingrich.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/hillaryclintonthesis.pdf "There is only the fight" (Political science B.A. senior honors thesis)] (Wellesley MA:  Wellesley College).  Reprinted at Nuke's N2l's.  Copyrighted material, for fair educational use only.</ref> she praised Alinsky and his methods for community organizing:

In her 1969 thesis entitled "There Is Only The Fight"<ref>Clinton, Hillary (1969). [https://nukegingrich.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/hillaryclintonthesis.pdf "There is only the fight" (Political science B.A. senior honors thesis)] (Wellesley MA:  Wellesley College).  Reprinted at Nuke's N2l's.  Copyrighted material, for fair educational use only.</ref> she praised Alinsky and his methods for community organizing: