Rules for Radicals: Between Saul Alinsky and Jesus Christ
Channel: Galen Currah
Date: 2018-02-04

Rules for Radicals
Between Saul Alinsky and Jesus Christ
Bible quotations taken from The NET Bible (2005)
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Many self-styled progressives and amateur communists follow 13 principles from Saul Alinsky’s last book, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971). 

Pseudo intellectuals parade as benevolent organizers seeking to unit low-income communities, in order to empower them to gain social, political, legal and economic equality by challenging the current agencies that promote their inequality.

Without knowing it, these self-styled saviours of humanity are following the teachings of Jesus applied to the devil’s social agenda. Let us review these 13 doctrines in Alinsky’s own words compared to Jesus’ words.

1. ”Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.” Acts 1:8

2. ”Never go outside the expertise of your people.” Luke 11:13

3. ”Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Luke 10:19

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”Matthew 7:12

5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” Matthew 23:13

6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” John 16:24

7. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Matthew 13:52

8. “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Matthew 22:45-46

9. “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Luke 21:24

10. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.” Matthew 10:22

11. “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.” Matthew 10:23

12. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Luke 24:46-47

13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” John 3:3

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.” John 8:44-45