Commentaries on Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Preview)

These Commentaries on Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals represent an effort to distinguish what in Alinsky’s work is useful from what is useless for the purposes of an anti-technological movement.

In Part One we examine an apparent conflict between some of Alinsky’s ideas and Rule (i) of the present author’s essay “How to Transform a Society: Errors to Avoid.”

Part Two should be read with a copy of Alinsky’s book in hand, for we review the entire book page by page and attempt to evaluate all passages that seem significant.

In Part Three we call the reader’s attention to thirty-two ideas, based on ideas from Alinsky’s book, that we think are especially deserving of consideration by anyone who may want to form an anti-technological organization.

Herein, all page citations to Alinsky’s book refer to the Vintage Books edition, Random House, New York, 1989.

[This the end of the preview and of what’s publicly accessible.]