Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra & Ryan Neugebauer
“In 1971, American activist Saul Alinsky published a book called Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals. Alinsky bemoaned the fact that activists, with ‘no illusions about the system,’ sought to ‘Burn the system down!’ Many of these same activists had ‘plenty of illusions about the way to change our world.’ Alinsky’s playbook on practical strategies for political activism has been appropriated not only by tacticians on the left but also by establishment politicians among liberal Democrats, such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and conservative Tea Party Republicans. That’s an important point to keep in mind because the issues that we address in this article are applicable to anyone who seeks social change, regardless of its form or direction. Alinsky’s discussion is, perhaps, more relevant today than it was when it was first published over a half-century ago.” (06/24/24)