Rules for Radicals in the Social Imagination...

 

Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals' has various themes. Among them are the use of symbol construction to strengthen the unity within an organization. Alinsky drew on loyalty to a particular church or religious affiliation to create a structured organization with which to operate, the reason being that symbols by which communities could identify themselves created structured organizations that were easier to mobilize in implementing direct action. Once the community was united behind a common symbol, Alinsky would find a common enemy for the community to be united against.

Alinsky would find an external antagonist to turn into a "common enemy" for the community within which he was operating. Often, this would be a local politician or agency that had some involvement with activity concerning the community. Once the enemy was established, the community would come together in opposition of it. This management of conflict heightened awareness within the community as to the similarities its members shared as well as what differentiated them from those outside of their organization. The use of conflict also allowed for the goal of the group to be clearly defined. With an established external antagonist, the community's goal would be to defeat that enemy.

Symbol construction helped to promote structured organization, which allowed for nonviolent conflict through another element in Alinsky's teaching, direct action. Direct action created conflict situations that further established the unity of the community and promoted the accomplishment of achieving the community's goal of defeating their common enemy. It also brought issues the community was battling to the public eye. Alinsky encouraged over-the-top public demonstrations throughout Rules for Radicals that could not be ignored, and these tactics enabled his organization to progress their goals faster than through normal bureaucratic processes.

Lastly, the main theme throughout Rules for Radicals and Alinsky's work was empowerment of the poor. Alinsky used symbol construction and nonviolent conflict to create a structured organization with a clearly defined goal that could take direct action against a common enemy. At this point, Alinsky would withdraw from the organization to allow their progress to be powered by the community itself. This empowered the organizations to create change.

All of the above is cut and paste from Wikipedia. Sure, that's not always a respected academic source but for the most part... everything you just read above is exactly what the Rules for Radicals was all about and still is. 

Alinsky's mistake, like most pro-communists, is that the poor, at least in America, are yet better off than most other truly poor places in the world. The poor in America, the United States, exist largely due to abuses that people with dependency personalities (namely pre-disposed to and or raised in addiction) bring on themselves and not because decent hard-working (black, asian, white and hispanic) Americans have an advantage over them other than NOT being addicted to substances, afflicted by a dysfunctional family and or engaged in criminal activity due to a generational tendency toward deviate behaviors. 

The number of poor in America is still relatively low...38 million in 2018 out of 330+million total population. The percentage of poor in the US is around 11.5% today. What's more, the official poverty rate in 2019 was 10.5 percent, down 1.3 percentage points from 11.8 percent in 2018. This is the fifth consecutive annual decline in poverty.

Now, thanks to the radical agenda known as cv one niner, that will certainly change; there are few better means to radicalize people than by lockdown. Nonetheless, the 'poor' in American remains very low; and thus, as a potential radical group the poor are reluctant toward radicalization. Alinksy saw that as a strange paralysis that could be overcome by externally steered provocation and or effective internal propaganda...and or both.

In this regard, why do we observe social unrest in the US? Is it due to huge disparity or racism? No. Is it because of the newest threat to democracy and liberty (cv 19)? Yeah, but moreover... its due to the specter of communism that still roams the earth.  

What's the method of engineering communism?Firstly, it is engineered to supposedly work for the elites, not the masses that are led to believe in it.  The ruling elites create the crisis which requires their solution but the average person is never told that the crisis was created... the crisis always advances control over man 'masses'... destroying free thought, freedom of movement and so on... creating a prison system for everyone but them. 

Hence, anyone telling the truth is banned and censored or called - SCIENCE deniers... You see, according to them their socio-political/economic agenda (global world order) cannot be trumped by anyone or anything… and only their science is the ‘right’ science. What drives such people to attempt to control the world and other people? The fundamental anxiety drives them as it does everyone... the fear of death. Its not about saving the world or the earth for future generations; its about saving it for them once they figure out how to live forever.