Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394443411 ISBN 13: 9780394443416

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1971

Guides young revolutionaries in the art of human communication and explains the tactics of organizing others to work within the system for social change

From the Inside Flap:

This primers tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.

About the Author:

Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago in 1909 and educated first in the streets of that city and then in its university. Graduate work at the University of Chicago in criminology introduced him to the Capone gang, and later to Joliet State Prison, where he studied prison life. He founded what is known today as the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power. His work in organizing the poor to fight for their rights as citizens has been internationally recognized. In the late 1930s he organized the Back of the Yards area in Chicago (the neighborhood made famous in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle). Subsequently, through the Industrial Areas Foundation which he began in 1940, Mr. Alinsky and his staff helped to organize communities not only in Chicago but throughout the country. He later turned his attentions to the middle class, creating a training institute for organizers. He died in 1972.