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Class warfare: The world, as Alinsky sees it, is looked in a perpetual struggle between the “Haves†and “Have-nots.†Alinsky sees his work as giving tools to the “Have-nots†so they can take from the “Haves.â€
Lets be real, the "haves" fuck over the have nots all the time, this is a somewhat true statement
- The ends justify the means: This is a war, baby.
Obviously not a good philosophy, but you dont see him off preaching to poor people telling them to burn down peoples homes or something
- “An organizer working for change...does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing.†Rules for Radicals (pg. 10-11): Morality isn’t a set of fixed principles but changes as popular consensus changes. (If you’re worried that this gives someone like Hitler moral credibility, you’d be right…that is, if Hitler wins the war. But since he didn’t, he’s the devil.)
Of course morality isnt a set of fixed principles, if it was slavery would still be considered moral, and women wouldnt be able to vote.
- The organizer (unencumbered by “truth) must gain the trust of people by looking and sounding just like them. “All effective actions,†Alinsky writes in his Rules, “require the passport of morality.†If the “people†are church-goers, the organizer had better go to church, too.
Duh. Would you vote for someone that had nothing in common with you? probably not, you have to relate to the community you organize.
While the values of Alinsky are socialist, taken to less of an extreme they could benefit the extremely poor.
Overall, obviously some of his ideas are stupid, and horrible, but others at least have good ideas behind them. But he is nowhere directly tied to obama, its always through degrees of separation.
Not that it matters, you wont hear any of this, because your convinced hes a communist whos going to make the poor tear the rich down and run the country into the ground.