Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

[white_wolf]

Has here anyone read it? I heard that Grady Warren idiot complaining about it, and anything that pisses off the teabaggers has to be good.

[drm604]

1. The right wingers have been going on about it for a while now.

It's obviously a talking point.

I never heard of Saul Alinsky or Rules for Radicals until they started yapping about it.

[The Blue Flower]

2. It's a good road map for community organizing

recommended

[OHdem10]

3. The Republicans (some teabaggers) studied Alinsky. They suely

learned to "agitate" very very quickly and I would
say it worked.

[JaneQPublic]

4. It was on the reading list for a college social work class I took in the 70s.

I have a copy here I just pulled out of a bookshelf. Thumbing through it, I don't see anything all that radical by today's standards. In fact, some of it is what the teabagger organizers used to start their "movement."

[DBoon]

5. yes, it's a great book

and its lessons on motivating and reaching out to people are applicable way beyond community organizing

I am very discouraged that the right wing has made Alinsky into an evil demon (along with George Soros, another very intelligent and decent person)