Radical: Saul Alinsky 1909 – 1972
Publication: Reveille for Radicals
Publication: Rules for Radicals
The leader of American Marxism
We are now entering into a transitional stage of the process of “The Machine”. Up to this point we have discussed the philosophy of the machine and the very beginning stages of socialists and communists building the machine to tear down our republic. It is important to now mention Saul Alinsky in this stage of the timeline because his work is mostly influential to the utilization of the cogs in “The Machine” rather then the engineering further engineering of it.
We must look at the era that Saul Alinsky began his work rather than a specific piece of his work.. Saul Alinsky came from the home of Chicago Russian Jewish Immigrants. His family was a devout Jewish Orthodox family, which is an ideology that Alinsky would later denounce. While working through the Depression he became involved in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The organization is currently known by the AFL-CIO which acronym comes after the merger with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1955. This organization was a supporter of Roosevelt’s “New Deal” as we mentioned in FDR’s discussion. It was also one of the few organizations that would accept African Americans.
Alinsky would eventually leave the labor movement and become more involved in community organizing which took place in Chicago ghettos and eventually California ghettos. His intentions were commendable as he organized those without a voice to rise up and get involved in the political system. As commendable Alinsky’s tactics may seem, they were most notably controversial. They employed a rather radically unethical set of procedures. Alinsky believed that that justice resides in taking from “the haves” and give it “the have nots”. He stated in his book “Rules for Radicals”, “The Price was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have Nots on how to take it away”.
The methods to achieve this were well thought out and structured. In Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, which is extremely fascinating and is a must read for all that wish to understand what is taking place in our country, Alinsky lays out the methods that he teaches to organizing groups. His “means to an end” philosophy is what is most important to understand. To briefly touch on Alinsky’s philosophy, he teaches that you must employ whatever “means” necessary to achieve the “ends” desired whether it was ethical or unethical. Alinsky stated in his book “Rules for Radicals” concerning ethics this profoundly radical statement:
“…you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.”
What Alinsky mentions here is that you must disguise your tactics with moral arguments as a way to achieve the ultimate goal. He also states that “Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times.” This is truly the mantra of “the Progressive”. I would ask a Progressive, progress towards what? It is enevitable that the progression is towards a completely unethical immoral society. If the Progressive wishes to have everyone become a Progressive, all ethics, taboos and morals will be erased in the attempt to free us but this elimination would simply create chaos. This chaos would require a government to create a standard ethical and moral structure to bring civility.
This is the summary of Alinsky’s rules.
An example of Barack Obama misleading the people to get rid of private insurance:
regardless of the means; get to the end
QUOTE: from “Rules for Radicals”:
“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
What must be understood about Alinksy’s tactics is how his influence resonates through our entire culture. Members of our government use his tactics. They organize people to take control of the people. The idea of taking from “the haves” and give to “the have nots” is not only a way to take property from the wealthy to give to those less fortunate, but is being used to take away the Constitution. We will look at the rules and give examples on some of the rules on how they are being used.
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.” .
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
• Ridicule Tea Party Group
• Carter’s ridicule of Obama critics
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Environmentalism > pollution > acid rain > global cooling > global warming > climate change
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”
• Rush of Stimulus package in January 2009
• Acorn
• SUSEIU Thugs attack black conservative
• Pressure on Healthcare campaigning pressure
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.
• Acorn
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”
• avoiding the question
• avoiding the question
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
So how is the new administration using the tactics of Saul Alinsky in “The Machine”. Remember that the means isn’t important. It is the end. The Communists using any means necessary, even businesses and banks, will work towards the ends. The end is a globalist version of communism, below are the examples:
Use Global Warming movement, which is the new environmentalist movement, to create a vehicle for global government.
It destroys capitalism and human prosperity:
Ann McElhinney Global Warming Argument Part 1
Ann McElhinney Global Warming Argument Part 2
Ann McElhinney Global Warming Argument Part 2
Environmentalism is a business:
General Electric – GE leading the way for Global Warming business
GE CEO Jeff Immelt backs “Cap and Trade”
Obama and GE strengthen ties with Russia
Goldman Sachs, Obama’s biggest campaign contributor, will profit from Cap and Trade.
Redistribution of Wealth through the United Nations via treaty like the Kyoto Treaty
Alinsky’s work was devoted to collecting people against the system. The idea of collecting a constituency is not an American concept. Representing what the people is what is truly American. Populism in the name of achieving some self decided benefit for a society is vile. This simply leads to Communism. Alinsky’s tactics are simply a way to implement a minority’s interests rather than a majority’s by misleading the majority. It is a grand illusion and bully tactics which implement unethical and immoral actions to achieve a delusional Utopia.
Our founding fathers built the United States to protect the individual. They knew that the individual was the true source of ingenuity and excellence. Alinsky on the other hand doesn’t wish for excellence and ingenuity but rather for equality. This equality is what he and the Progressives call “Social Justice”. I would simply call it socialism. Alinsky saw explains the Progressives ideology best by thus quote from “Rules for Radicals”,
“Action is for the mass salvation and not for the individual’s personal salvation. He who sacrifices the mass good for his personal conscience has a peculiar conception of ‘personal salvation’; he doesn’t care enough for people to be ‘corrupted’ for them.”
It is obvious that Alinsky’s contempt for an individuals yearning for personal success is selfish and not beneficial for the collective. This is where the ideas of no red pens in school for grading papers and no dodge ball comes from. It is the contempt for competition. It is also the contempt for capitalism. The only alternative is Socialism or Communism.
In Hillary Clinton’s thesis on Saul Alinsky, her last statement was profound.
"If the ideals Alinsky espoused were actualized, the result would be a social revolution. Ironically, this is not a disjunctive projection if considered in the tradition of Western democratic theory. In the first chapter it was pointed out that Alinsky is regarded by many as the proponent of a dangerous socio/political philosophy. As such, he has been feared – just as Eugene Debs or Walt Whitman or Martin Luther King has been feared, because each embraced the most radical faiths – democracy.”
