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Stuart Bramhall on why the left fails to attract the working class. After posing this question to working class clients and friends for 30+ years, I have come up with the following answers: Liberals and progressives rarely address the nitty gritty financial issues (i.e. paying the rent or mortgage and food and doctor bills) [...] From the Playboy interview with Saul Alinsky in 1972. PLAYBOY: How close was the country to revolution during the Depression? ALINSKY: A lot closer than some people think. It was really Roosevelt’s reforms that saved the system from itself and averted total catastrophe. You’ve got to remember, it wasn’t only people’s money that went [...] (Part 5 of a 5-part series this week about Alinsky) From Rules for Radicals. He says the eternal question of does the end justify the means is meaningless and the real and only question is, “Does this particular end justify this particular means?” He has little use for those who sit on the [...] (Part 4 of a 5-part series this week about Alinsky) Alinsky started organizing Back of the Yards in Chicago in the 30′s, and invented community organizing in the process. From the Playboy interview in 1972. ALINSKY: It was the area behind the Chicago Stockyards that Upton Sinclair wrote about in The Jungle at [...] (Part 3 of a 5-part series this week about Alinsky) From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky’s now-famous rules for organizing. Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. Power has always derived from two main sources, people and money. Lacking money, the Have-Nots must always build [...] (Part 2 of a 5-part series this week about Alinsky) From the Playboy interview with Saul Alinsky in 1972. First, two quotes that maybe show who he was. When “Rules for Radicals” was first published and received glowing reviews, Alinsy told his staff, “Don’t worry, boys, we’ll weather this storm of approval and come [...] (This is the first of five posts about Saul Alinsky appearing this week) Saul Alinsky invented community organizing in Chicago in the 1930′s in an area known as Back Of The Yards. It was the first time organizing had been done in a geographical area rather than in a union or industry. He was [...] Alinksy is considered the founder of community organizing and his book, Rules for Radicals, has been widely read by organizers from all over the political spectrum. He started organizing in Chicago in the 1930′s in Back of the Yards, which he organized by forming a partnership with the Catholic Church. He was not Marxist, [...] |  | ||||
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