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== Saul Alinsky ==
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Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was "very close to being an organizational genius"<Ref>William F. Buckley, Jr. (October 19, 1966). "The Fashionable Saul Alinsky – Trouble Maker". Chicago Daily News. For a transcription of Buckley's piece, see PDF pages 41 and 42 in this FBI file on Alinsky, released under FOIA.</Ref> and writer and a founder of "modern community organizing" to establish collective power, facilitating coalitions and assisting in the development of campaigns. He wrote the book ''Rules for Radicals'' published in 1971 one year before his death.

Alinsky spoke of class struggle as a political necessity for social progress. While such a notion is hardly a communist invention Marx and Engels did embrace and integrate this principle into their political theory.<Ref>In his 1882 letter to Engels, Marx wrote, “You know very well where we found our idea of class struggle; we found it in the work of the French historians who talked about the race struggle.”</Ref>

In the opening paragraph of ''Rules for Radicals'' Alinsky writes:

* "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<Ref>Someone Machiavellian is sneaky, cunning, and lacking a moral code. The word comes from the Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, who wrote the political treatise The Prince in the 1500s, that encourages “the end justifies the means” behavior, especially among politicians.</Ref> for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away."

At the end of his personal acknowledgment we can read:

: "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer."

Alinski was often fighting for the underdog and people often disenfranchised or just taken advantage of by people in positions of power. Alinsky was not really a Socialist although his Rules could be used by both [[socialist]]s or [[capitalism|capitalists]].

== Rules For Radicals ==

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(The following  ''12 Rules For Radicals'' includes numbered
*  ''Rules #''
:* ''Common explanation'', and
:** ''(Comments [[Brother Gregory|from a Kingdom view.]])''

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* RULE 1: “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” 
:* Power is derived from different sources which can include both money and people. “Have-Nots” must build power from organizing but the motivation for coming together may determine true power.
:** ''(The reasons for coming together should be a matter of social virtue and morality for those bonds to convey true power to the people.)''
:** ''(Thinking of individuals or even groups as "the enemy". You quest for power must have a noble goal of [[righteousness]]. Bonds that come from conflict and common enemies are ineffective in areas that thrive on unity.)'' 

* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” 
:* It results in confusion, fear, and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
:**  ''(You should strive to become an expert in all elements within the world where conflict may occur. Doing your homework well requires that you are willing to know the whole truth and become a true expert addressing real problems in their entirety for all of society in the present and the future.)''

* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” 
:* Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
:** ''(If you strive for righteousness and are willing to see the whole truth you will have a decided advantage over those who are less willing to see the conflict clearly.)''

* RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” 
:* If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
:** ''(While holding opponents to their own word and rules is a valid approach it should not be your tactic to make them fall by less than noble enterprises unless you desire the same tactics to be used on you. Again to seek righteousness in all things makes you a true radicle in a corrupt world. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.)''

* RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” 
:*  There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
:** ''(This tactic would only work on the proud and wicked but may backfire on you if your cause is not just and you are not filled with [[social virtues]] and a moral goal of attending to the [[weightier matters]].)''

* RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” 
:* They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
:** ''(If your fellow radicals enjoy doing evil and unrighteous things then your ally is the enemy of righteousness.)''

* RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” 
:* Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
:** ''(Perseverance is a virtue of the righteous.)''

* RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” 
:* Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
:** ''(To "Never let up" in the pursuit of righteousness is good advice but if your cause or tactics are unrighteous the end will be unrighteous.)''

* RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” 
:* Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
:** ''(If perception does not match reality then it is a delusion. Anger and fear will both drain you and your group resources.)''

* RULE 10: “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” 
:* Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management’s wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
:** (Persecution of Christians coupled with their system of charity not only one the hearts of many people it made allies of the bravest and noblest of souls.)

* RULE 11: “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” 
:* Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
:** ''(It is true that "If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem." which is why you must be righteous and just or you will only beget more unrighteousness. [[Satan]] was the father of unrighteousness and while he was able to take power he never produced [[mercy]].)'' 

* RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” 
:* Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
:** ''(Who was the false accuser but [[Satan]] himself?)''

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== 10 Communist Rules for Revolution ==


A list of 'Communist Rules for Revolution' supposedly discovered by Allied in 1919 b(probably not true).

: 1. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial. Destroy their ruggedness.
: 2. Get control of all means of publicity.
: 3. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and other trivialities.
: 4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
: 5. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.
: 6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
: 7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit and produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
: 8. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
: 9. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
: 10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.
 
{{12 Rules for Life}}



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