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Does Gingrich have a secret stake in the publisher ? He's done more to get people to read
Alinsky than anyone else in the last 30 years.
Hardball did a spot on Alinsky's "Thirteen Rules", and it's obvious that Gingrich is using many of them. NG is obviously pissed that someone else came up with these "Big Ideas" first. But I'll bet his really big gripe is that SA helped blacks in their organizing efforts.
The Wiki on
SA is worth reading. He avoided joining political organizations, and is generally regarded as a "leader of the
nonsocialist left". Here's a prescient -- and worrying -- excerpt:
Alinsky described his plans in 1972 to begin to organize the white middle class across America, and the necessity of that project. He believed that what President Richard Nixon and Vice-President Spiro Agnew called "The Silent Majority" was living in frustration and despair, worried about their future, and ripe for a turn to radical social change, to become politically-active citizens. He feared the middle class could be driven to a right-wing viewpoint, "making them ripe for the plucking by some guy on horseback promising a return to the vanished verities of yesterday." His stated motive: "I love this goddamn country, and we're going to take it back."[4]
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HA ha ! Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" is #234 in sales on Amazon.com (Original post)
