Alinsky generally wants to effect "meaningful" change in the environment that surrounds him, and using "radical" political tactics to attempt it. Kent State, Vietnam, Race Riots, etc., are the stage for Alinsky's acts. The thoughts that provoke it are roughly 50 years old. The book is a symptom of the age it was written in. Is there anything you would change about this book? Saul evens opens the book with a salute to the "very first radical" whom he admired, namely, Lucifer. His vision is to undermine Middle America's belief system.to ridicule that way of life.to mock and agitate middle-class people.and ultimately to turn the middle class against each other. Me, you, and roughly 55% of Americans who make up the power base of the country and so, Saul's call to arms is aimed solely at the middle class. The most horrifying conclusion is who Saul Alinsky identifies as Public Enemy #1 in America: the middle class. A radical, he tells us, is 100% right and those who oppose a radical are 100% wrong. He advocates for absolutism in public debate. He outlines his dismissal of ethics in social warfare and makes the age-old case for the ends justifying the means, step 1 for any evil enterprise. Make no mistake, the ideas of this book are dangerous because they are realistically cunning. He doesn't seem to really want a peaceful society but envisions a society that is constantly at war with itself from within.
I found myself fearing his thinking as much as I did appreciating the cold logic he brought to bear on these pages. It's important to note-Alinsky was not a documented socialist or communist.he's a pure Anti-American who stands alone in his 'action' ideology. This is one of the first books that I have read that bore a chilling grasp of reality and an unapologetic commitment to attack thy neighbor. Many authors who take aim at the American system often fall short with an entrenched bias that weakens their critiques and inevitable solutions. I've read many books from the right and the from the left end of the political spectrum.
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