First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.From the Trade Paperback edition.**Review“Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher.” 
—Charles E. Silberman “He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules.” 
—The Economist (London) “I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century.” 
—Jacques Maritain From the Trade Paperback edition.From the Inside Flap







This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.

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