• lmmarsanoEnglish
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    2 months ago

    From the description

    First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky’s impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one. […] Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

    In today’s social climate with today’s regard for rational discourse & democratic tradition? Are we doomed?

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Alinsky lived in a time of McCarthyism and Nixon and the Southern Strategy. I’m not an expert on the guy, but I don’t think he’d say we’re doomed.