Blogging Rules for Radicals

Rules for Radicals is probably the single most important book to the left wing radicals in the US. It is a statement of belief, and a strategy for winning the culture war. It’s important that you understand this book, even if you don’t want to read it yourself. The folks at PJM are actually reading through the book, and blogging their impressions of each section, along with interesting parts, as they go through. It’s well worth reading.

Reading Alinsky in the age of Obama, we need to remember that in 1971 LBJ’s War on Poverty was only five years into its deconstruction of the urban family and transfer of millions of citizens from self-determination to government dependence.

So while Alinsky’s narrative has some glimmers of truth, after nearly 40 years of his ideas being stirred into the political melting pot — and now on parade in the White House — we can see the underlying flaw: that those claiming most passionately to be “for the people” use them as pawns for their own angst-driven ideology. And worse, that those driven to redistribute wealth to the “have-nots” end up as blind and selfish “haves” themselves, worse than the ones who came before (as Animal Farm describes in parable form.)

The first post is here; there are links to the other posts once you hit that landing page.