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Title: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul David Alinsky ISBN: 0-394-44341-1 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: May, 1971 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: How the upper classes can become political leaders
Comment: This book is a book about how to organize people to change policies so that those who don't have much power in our system can get policies that help level the playing field. Rules for Radicals is directed toward upper middle class and upper class college students that want to make a difference in poor and underprivileged communities.
One of the things talked about in the book is how to relate to people in poor and underprivileged communities. This is important since it assumes that people from upper class backgrounds will be doing most of the organizing. One of the main lessons is that everything must be done within the peoples experience. If you don't do something in the experience of the people you are trying to organize then whatever your trying to do will fail.
Alinsky explains his tactics using liberal causes as examples but the tactics could be used by anybody to promote any cause. Alinsky also stresses that an organizer shouldn't get locked into any one tactic and should by creative in creating new tactics to be most effective in promoting a paticular cause.
Despite the good advice in this book I didn't give it five stars for two reasons. Frist the book asumes that it takes a person from the upper classes to come into a poor or underprivileged community and organize for them. The book doesn't address the idea of communities organizing themselves without outside help. People that want to organize within their own communities would find much helpful information in this book, but the subject isn't discussed or even mentioned in the book. Second reason I didn't give this book five stars is the last chapter. In the last chapter Alinsky goes on a tangent about issues that for the most part are no longer relivent. They were relivent when the book was published in 1971.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truly exceptional
Comment: This book is the very best I have read about social change. It is devoid of any sentimental issues, rather focusing on the pragmatic aspects of change.
For example, he does not believe Ghandi was a pacifist from the beginning; he believes Ghandi realized that pacifism was the most effective approach in that case, so he chose it. If Ghandi had had guns and people to fight, Alinsky believes that Ghandi would have fought with guns. The book is full of similar stories that give life to the beliefs of the author. He also gives a blueprint of what the characteristics he believes make up a good radical organizer, and methods for such an organizer to better communicate with his audience.
This book is great for the radical who has a clue of what he would like to achieve and needs some help figuring out how to do it. It is not for someone simply seeking inspiration to make society better.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hillary's Playbook
Comment: Marxist Alinsky was Hillary's mentor at Yale. This is her playbook. Read it. Now we know what to call her: An Alinskyite--not that she hasn't moved to the left of old Saul by now.
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Title: Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky ISBN: 0679721126 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 23 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.60 |
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Title: Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy: Manual for Activists by Kimberley A. Bobo, Jackie Kenoall, Steve Max, Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Midwest Academy, Kimberly A. Bobo ISBN: 092976594X Publisher: Seven Locks Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Activist's Handbook: A Primer Updated Edition with a New Preface by Randy Shaw ISBN: 0520229282 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets by John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight ISBN: 087946108X Publisher: ACTA Publications Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice by Edward T. Chambers, Michael A. Cowan, Studs Terkel ISBN: 0826414990 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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