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: | 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: |