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blog! “Book Review: Rules for Radicals- A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky”
★★★★☆
My good friend Suw alerted me to this venerable book by repeatedly ranting "What is your theory of change???" online.
If ever there was a moment to yell "WHAT IS YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE???" that moment is now and we…
Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-rules-for-radicals-a-pragmatic-primer-for-realistic-radicals-by-saul-alinsky/
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@RoyBrander@urbanists.socialA friend recommended this after the election; I'd had it on my shelf for >20 years and never read it, assumed it would be a lot of very-left ideology. It has almost NONE of that. It's all practical advice about getting some power from a bottom-level start.
It's clear that Roy Cohn practically memorized this book and taught it all to Trump. Read it yourself and tick off all the boxes that Trump has clearly ticked himself: be seen as a "dangerous enemy", easy victories, the works.