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5 unusual facts about Rules for Radicals


Of Angels and Angles

Alternatively, it could be a reference to Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals" which contains the line "....is a world not of angels, but of angles where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles"

Rules for Radicals

Alinsky believed heavily in collective action as a result of the work he did with the C.I.O and the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago where he first began to develop his own, distinct method of community organizing.

Rules for Radicals was a direct influence that helped to form the United Neighborhood Organization which came to prominence in the early 1980s.

The methods and teachings of Rules for Radicals have also been linked to the Mid America Institute, the National People's Action, the National Training and Information Center, the Pacific Institute for Community Organizations, and the Community Service Organization.

Direct students of Alinsky’s such as Edward T. Chambers took the lessons of Rules for Radicals to help form the Industrial Areas Foundation, the Queens Citizens Organization, and the Communities Organized for Public Service.



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