re: #212 Vicious Piebola

There are more right-wingers who hang on to every word of Alinsky than there are liberals who even ever heard of him.

I was at Berkeley in the Sixties. We never heard of Alinsky because his book, Rules for Radicals, wasn’t published until 1971. By then the various local movements had largely degenerated into a welter of infighting and petty power struggles.

The concept of communities organizing to assert their rights goes back at least to the Roman empire. Alinsky’s name is, in the RW, just another meaningless shorthand for things they don’t like.