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[[File:The LoveSong of Saul Alinsky.png|thumb|250px|right|Poster for ''The LoveSong of Saul Alinsky'']]
[[File:The LoveSong of Saul Alinsky.png|thumb|250px|right|Poster for ''The LoveSong of Saul Alinsky'']]
'''Saul David Alinsky''' (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an author, activist, and liberal community organizer and rabble-rouser in Chicago who developed a method of local organizing that was widely copied by Democrats, and influenced [[Barack Obama]] and [[Hillary Clinton]]. He is credited with coining the term "community organizer." His most well-known accomplishment was the book ''[[Rules for Radicals]]''. He wanted reform inside the system by pressuring government officials to take into account the needs and wants of neighborhood residents, and he believed that the end justified any means.
'''Saul David Alinsky''' (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an author, activist, and left-wing community organizer and rabble-rouser in Chicago who developed a method of local organizing that was widely copied by Democrats, and influenced [[Barack Obama]] and [[Hillary Clinton]]. He is credited with coining the term "community organizer." His most well-known accomplishment was the book ''[[Rules for Radicals]]''. He wanted reform inside the system by pressuring government officials to take into account the needs and wants of neighborhood residents, and he believed that the end justified any means.
He was opposed by far-left radicals who wanted to destroy [[capitalism]] and who feared that Alinsky was strengthening it by resolving the issues most important to the poor, and was nicknamed "The Red" for his radicalism—his book was dedicated tongue-in-cheek to Lucifer, the first radical.<ref name="worldnetdaily.com">[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&PageId=76170 Guess who recommended Obama to enter Harvard] [[WND|Worldnetdaily]], September 24, 2008</ref>
He was opposed by far-left radicals who wanted to destroy [[capitalism]] and who feared that Alinsky was strengthening it by resolving the issues most important to the poor, and was nicknamed "The Red" for his radicalism—his book was dedicated tongue-in-cheek to Lucifer, the first radical.<ref name="worldnetdaily.com">[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&PageId=76170 Guess who recommended Obama to enter Harvard] [[WND|Worldnetdaily]], September 24, 2008</ref>
In ''Rules for Radicals'', Alinsky wrote specifically to the 1960s generation of [[New Left]] radicals: ''"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."''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23alinsky.html Know Thine Enemy], [[The New York Times]]</ref>
In ''Rules for Radicals'', Alinsky wrote specifically to the 1960s generation of [[New Left]] radicals: ''"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."''<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23alinsky.html Know Thine Enemy], [[The New York Times]]</ref>
=== The Rules ===
# "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
# "Never go outside the expertise of your people."
# "Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy."
# "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
# Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage. (See: [[Irritating an opponent (military and political tactic)]]
# "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
# "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
# "Keep the pressure on."
# "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. "
# "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
# "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."
# "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
# "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "
==Death and Legacy==
==Death and Legacy==
* [[Frances Fox Piven]]
* [[Frances Fox Piven]]
* [[The People's Cube]]
* [[The People's Cube]]
*[[Volodymyr Zelensky]]
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