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Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

by Saul Alinsky

Practical thinking on radical politics and social change

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Practical thinking on radical politics and social change

Written amid the radical political developments of its time, Saul Alinsky’s book considers how political engagement can be directed toward constructive social change. Its central distinction is between radicalism grounded in practical action and radicalism expressed chiefly as rhetoric. The description also places the book within the American democratic tradition, emphasizing the relationship between intense political commitment and rational political discourse. First published in 1971, it offers a perspective shaped by the political debates of that period.

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  • Readers interested in political radicalism and social-change organizing.
  • Readers exploring arguments about political action within the American democratic tradition.

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Radical politicsConstructive social changePolitical action and rhetoricAmerican democratic tradition

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Book overview

"This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one."

"A superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher." --Charles E. Silberman

First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
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