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Titolo: 'Rules for Radicals'

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
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Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he 
emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are 
fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.
Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you 
have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise 
a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.
Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is 
confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here 
you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. "You can kill 
them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian 
church can live up to Christianity."
Rule 5: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack 
ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your 
advantage.
Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. "If your people aren't 
having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic."
Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may 
become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.
Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all 
events of the period for your purpose. "The major premise for tactics is the 
development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the 
opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your 
advantage."
Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky 
leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the 
washrooms of O'Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act 
on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the 
mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every 
washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and 
the damage to the city's reputation.
Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. 
Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, "Okay, what 
would you do?"
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don't try 
to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible 
individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent 
into reacting. "The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be 
your major strength."[2]
Alinsky codified and wrote a clear set of rules[3] for community organizing. 
His rules for radicals are now used as key tactics to learn in the training 
of new community organizers.
In a separate chapter he suggests that the perennial question, "Does the end 
justify the means?" is meaningless as it stands: the real and only question 
regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and always has been, "Does this 
particular end justify this particular means?"
Alinsky continues by stating several rules of the ethics of means and ends:
    * The judgment of the ethics of means is dependent upon the political 
position of those sitting in judgment.
    * In war, the end justifies almost any means.
    * Judgment must be made in the context of the times in which the action 
occurred and not from any other chronological vantage point.
    * Concern with ethics increases with the number of means available and 
vice versa.
    * The less important the end to be desired, the more one can afford to 
engage in ethical evaluations of means.
    * Generally, success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.
    * The morality of a means depends upon whether the means is being 
employed at a time of imminent defeat or imminent victory.
    * Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being 
unethical.
    * You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral 
garments.
    * Goals must be phrased in general terms like "Liberty, Equality, 
Fraternity," "Of the Common Welfare," "Pursuit of Happiness," or "Bread and 
Peace."
These rules of the ethics of means and ends are only one chapter of his 
book, totally distinct from his "clear set of rules for community 
organizing."
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organizing."
Asked about his organizing philosophy, Andy Stern summed it up this
way: “[W]e prefer to use the power of persuasion, but if that doesn’t
work we use the persuasion of power.”