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Use of Paine, Tocqueville, Jefferson in the book
In ''Rules for Radicals'', Alinsky wrote: ''"What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."''
In ''Rules for Radicals'', Alinsky wrote: ''"What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."''
His "rules" derive from many successful campaigns where he sowed the seeds of [[class warfare]] with community organizing, getting people fighting power and privilege, whom he convinced people were the root of all their "problems".
His "rules" derive from many successful campaigns where he sowed the seeds of [[class warfare]] with community organizing, getting people fighting power and privilege, whom he convinced people were the root of all their "problems". He uses several authors in the book who are associated with individual liberty, such as [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], and [[Thomas Paine]]. Alinsky uses the following quote from Tocqueville in the prologue:
<blockquote>unless individual citizens were regularly involved in the action of governing themselves, self-government would pass from the scene.</blockquote>
Tocqueville, like Jefferson, believed that government was best when it was limited. Alinsky believed the opposite, and in the book takes time to lament Jefferson as only caring for his own "naked self-interest in the clothing of "freedom," "equality of mankind," "a law higher than man-made law," and so on."<ref>Rules for Radicals, page 44</ref> It becomes quite clear that when Alinsky wrote of "self government", he meant nothing more than base materialism and wealth redistribution.
===The Hillary Letters===
===The Hillary Letters===