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Rules for radicals : a practical primer for realistic radicals

Rules for radicals : a practical primer for realistic radicals

Book 1989

Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's 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...