Alinsky focused on the flow, not the organizational structures. The structures were necessary but temporary, like irrigation ditches designed to channel the waters of a river. He helped organize the Back of the Yards Council in Chicago, for example, to give power to neighborhood people but when, a decade or so later, the Council has become reactionary, he organized others against it. Once we seize the moral high ground, we lose it if we try to hold it. We become what we are fighting.
Organizational structures become constraints instead of means of liberation.
When we identify the right with organizational structures and then act on behalf of those structures, we can justify anything. Once we think we're right because we belong to the organization instead of determining right action by the context, we turn the Tao into a river of blood. We hear a lot these days about hacktivism. One form of hacktivism is the use of hacking skills to crack web sites and deface them or replace them with political messages. In one incident, a Pakistani stole the credit card numbers of members of a pro-Israel lobbying group and posted them on the Web.