RfR: The Purpose

Science of Revolution

Alinsky claims there are few revolutionary writings which the Radicals "desperately" seek. They must turn to the writings of "communists, both red and yellow," instead. It's too bad there are no more copies of what our Founding Fathers read. You know, books from authors like Sir William Blackstone, John Locke or Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Frederic Bastiat or Montesquieu, Polybius or Plutarch. Nor even could those poor "Have-Nots" find anything to read from those revolutionaries themselves. Well except for this, this and this. And this, this, and this, and this, and this, and this, or just get out your 5000 Year Leap book and turn to the bibliography.

He laments that revolution is synonymous with communism. (Too bad for him, he's not around in 2009 when communism seems to have lost its stigma.) Also, revolution is associated with war, but he wants to create a revolution between the "Haves" and "Have-Nots". Since the "Haves" um, have, all the power and guns I assume war is not possible in the Radical's revolution.

The Ideology of Change

The main reason why it is impossible to argue with a Statist schooled in the Alinsky program is because a Statist has no root principles. S.A. says an organizer "does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing." Also to make the simple complex, S.A. believes that no action can have a determinate result, therefore it is unnecessary to assume that any action is good or bad: "It frees one from the myth that one approach is positive and another negative." Otherwise known as the "judge by intentions not consequences" law. This is how he can put Moses, Thomas Jefferson and Gandhi in the same class of "great world leaders" as Lenin, Castro, and Mao.

Class Distinctions: The Trinity

"A major revolution to be won in the immediate future is the dissipation of man's illusion that his own welfare can be separate from that of all others."

Remember S.A. says truth is relative, but believe him when he classifies the absolute truth of classes (the "Haves", "Have-Nots", and "Have-a-Little, Want Mores") and their roles in society, you know, because he's a realist. The class S.A. seems to disdain more than the "Haves" are the "Do-Nothings." It is his philosophy to constantly move toward the goal. One of those goals is to enlighten man that "interdependence of man [is] his major strength" and "man is his brother's keeper."

"The moral life is the only road to survival." However, it is the philosophy that we are our brother's keeper that S.A. finds to be the moral way to live. If we live by this maxim than the Statist concludes everyone will be "Haves." Never mind history shows that social-justice is just the predecessor of social-destruction. Read the true story of Thanksgiving.