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==Community Organizer==
==Community Organizer==
The late Andrew Breitbart, in his book, ''Righteous Indignation'', identifies Alinsky as the “first modern community organizer,” and a Communist, too, but a pragmatic one, and a realist who knew from experience what would work and what wouldn’t work in Western democracies. Alinsky took the pretentious ideas of the [[Frankfurt School]] and turned them into clear and actionable rules for war, a war with Judeo-Christian civilization, informed above all else by the maxim that the ends justify the means. Breitbart suggests that “if Marcuse was the [[Jesus]] of the New Left, then Alinsky was his [[Saint Paul]], proselytizing and dumbing down [[Herbert Marcuse]]’s message, making it practical, and convincing leaders to make it the official [[religion]] of the United States, even if that meant discarding the old secular religion of the United States, the [[Constitution]]."<ref>https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Audio.details/ID/4939/Marxism-Academia-Origins-Political-Correctness.htm</ref>
Alinsky's approach to community organizing stressed "self interest as the generating reality of life." This view was solidified by his experiences in the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) as an organizer in the style of labor union leaders [[Samuel Gompers]] and [[John L. Lewis]]. Many of the CIO organizers that he worked with were card-carrying communists.<ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-26/features/8502020590_1_slum-criminologist-neighborhoods Organization Man], ''Saul Alinsky`s Legacy Is Alive, Well And Living In The Neighborhoods'', [[Chicago Tribune]], by P. David Finks</ref>
Alinsky's approach to community organizing stressed "self interest as the generating reality of life." This view was solidified by his experiences in the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) as an organizer in the style of labor union leaders [[Samuel Gompers]] and [[John L. Lewis]]. Many of the CIO organizers that he worked with were card-carrying communists.<ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-05-26/features/8502020590_1_slum-criminologist-neighborhoods Organization Man], ''Saul Alinsky`s Legacy Is Alive, Well And Living In The Neighborhoods'', [[Chicago Tribune]], by P. David Finks</ref>