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The Tortuga Society argued about (and reviled) Rules for Radicals, picking up the debate started in Chaos Is A Ladder, in this month’s Tortuga Book Club (led as always by Professor Axelrod).
Professor Axelrod: “Rules for Radicals is a book for organizers and not for the folks who are actually touched by the community. The Hell’s Angel sitting next to me when I was 10 got better than most when dealing with Alinsky. He said: ‘You’re here to use me as a shock troop until I die.’ Well…”
Whose Good Was He There For?
His own.
Alinsky got a lot of money from Marshall Field III. He probably invented the tactic that Jesse Jackson perfected in the 1980s and 1990s: “Hey there, such and such corporation. Boy, sure doesn’t look very diverse in your company. I sure wouldn’t want to have to call that out. Or you could just hire my boy here and make a donation to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.”
Why Was He So Influential?
Because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave him some level of credit.
The people who were educated on him picked up on him, and then the next generation was educated on, this guy is fabulous! Which is why Barack and Hillary learned to love him young.
He got something. He got something about how to sabotage. Or how to be contrarian in this way.
[Behind the wall: whether the Right can run Alinsky’s playbook, and how to beat an Alinsky operator by stealing his one good idea. Somewhere in there an armed robber loses his gun hand.]
