Rules for Radicals

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

- Sun Tzu, Art of War III.18

 

 As promised I am providing information which I have condensed for fast assimilation and discussion. This is the playbook of those who have, by hook and by crook, seized the reigns of power and are now clanking the chains of slavery by taxation and harassment over the people of our nation. The time for dithering has finished.

 The following article contains excerpts from a comprehensive profile written by John Perazzo in April 2008. Read the original at:  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314#_edn39_edn39

Alinsky studied criminology as a graduate student at the University of Chicago, during which time he became friendly with Al Capone and his mobsters.

Lesson One – Saul Alinsky and His Paradigm
“The organizer is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach — to create, to be a ‘great creator,’ to play God.”
- Rules for Radicals p.61

Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky helped to establish the confrontational political tactics that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States. Though Alinsky is generally viewed as a member of the political left, and rightfully so, his legacy is more methodological than ideological. He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power.

His starting point was a near-fascination with John L. Lewis, the great labor leader and founder of the CIO. What if, Alinsky wondered, the same hardheaded tactics used by unions could be applied to the relationship between citizens and public officials?”

What are we facing?
“Organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution.”

Ultimate objectives –

- systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population

- radical [fundamental] transformation of America’s social and economic structure.

The goal –
To foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted.

The theory –
The people will settle for nothing less than that status quo’s complete collapse — to be followed by the erection of an entirely new system upon its ruins.

Tactics -
Organizers must be entirely unpredictable and unmistakably willing — for the sake of the moral principles (fairness, equality, justice) in whose name they claim to act — to watch society descend into utter chaos and anarchy. He stated that they must be prepared, if necessary, to “go into a state of complete confusion and draw [their] opponent into the vortex of the same confusion.[i]

Opponents -

A comparison of the opponents according to Saul Alinsky’s Reveille for Radicals, pp. 21-22:

Individuals (‘liberals’)

1. Fear power or its application. They talk glibly of people lifting themselves by their own bootstraps but fail to realize that nothing can be lifted except through power
2. protest
3. become indignant
4. do not modify their personal lives and what they give to a cause is a small part of their lives  
5. give and take oral arguments

 Statists (‘radicals’)

1. precipitate the social crisis by action — by using power
2. rebel
3. become fighting mad and go into action
4. give themselves to the cause
5. give and take the hard, dirty, bitter way of life

 

 What do radical statists think of individuals?
- Status quo is fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation.
- Middle classes are Thermopolitically tepid and rooted in inertia. Today in Western society and particularly in the United States they comprise the majority of our population.[ii] 


“Mankind,” said Alinsky, “has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.”[iii] He explained that in America, the Have-a-Little, Want-Mores (i.e., members of the middle class) were the most numerous and therefore of the utmost importance.[iv] Said Alinsky: “Torn between upholding the status quo to protect the little they have, yet wanting change so they can get more, they [the middle class] become split personalities… 

Above all, Alinsky taught that in order to succeed, the organizer and his People’s Organization needed to target their message toward the middle class. Alinsky stressed that organizers and their followers needed to take care, when first unveiling their particular crusade for “change,” not to alienate the middle class with any type of crude language, defiant demeanor, or menacing appearance that suggested radicalism or a disrespect for middle class mores and traditions. For this very reason, he disliked the hippies and counterculture activists of the 1960s. As Richard Poe puts it: “Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.”

What do they want?
The ultimate goal is not to arrive at compromise or peaceful coexistence, but rather to “crush the opposition,” bit by bit.[v] “A People’s Organization is dedicated to eternal war,” said Alinsky.

What are the rules?
“… A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play.… When you have war, it means that neither side can agree on anything…. In our war against the social menaces of mankind there can be no compromise. It is life or death.”  [vi] 

The organizer deceitfully blames free market capitalism as the cause of all inequities of life – not the lack of character and personal effort, or dissolute habits of the have nots. He feeds their latent envy and fans the flames of hatred into a blazing inferno of rebellion. But when the followers break the old system, instead of obtaining all the goods they coveted for themselves these goods are appropriated by the organizer and distributed among his partners in crime.

- Hesperian Sibyl

[i] Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, pp. 150-151

[ii] Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, p. 19.

[iii] Ibid., p. 18.

[iv] Ibid., pp. 18-20.

[v] Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, p. 150.

[vi] Ibid., pp. 133-134.