Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals

Although there is one exception which is the art of communication. The next chapter/step for a radical is to be accepted by people to be an organizer. Alinsky goes into further detail on what is the different ways to get the acceptance from people. Finally we get into the juicy part of the playbook, which is where the tactics come into play. There are a total of thirteen rules that to be able to be successful in being a radical.

[t]he job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.' [According to Alinsky], the hysterical instant reaction of the establishment [will] not only validate [the organizer's] credentials of competency but also ensure automatic popular

After Joseph died the new Egyptian pharaoh began to realize that the Israelite population was on the rise and oppressed them by making them slaves. As a result of being slaves and beginning to populate Egypt the Egyptians decided to kill all the firstborn Israelite male babies. The only one to escape this massacre was Moses who’s mother put him in a basket and put him in the water. He was then found by Pharaoh’s daughter and she saved him and treated him as if he was her own son. As a result of the event of having been enslaved and having their male children killed the Israelites cried out to God and he heard them.

About 500 years after the death of Abraham, his descendants through Isaac were living in Egypt as slaves. Genesis 37 to 50 tells the story of how this came about. The 10 oldest sons of Abraham's grandson Jacob disliked their younger brother Joseph so much that they found a way to sell him to traders who in turn sold him to an Egyptian officer as a slave. In his new land, Joseph went through a series of ups and downs and eventually became the prime minister of Egypt, the highest official under the king. God enabled Joseph to foresee an approaching time of famine, and used him to store up food and then distribute it during the famine. His political position made it possible for him to settle his father's family in Egypt's most fertile territory. Here they prospered for many years. However, the time came when the leaders of Egypt began to view the rapidly growing Israelite community as a threat. As a result, they made slaves of the Israelites, treating them with ever-increasing harshness. Finally, desperate because the descendants of Jacob continued to multiply, they issued an order that all their male babies be destroyed at birth. The first 12 chapters of Exodus tell the story of how the Lord responded to the cries of His people. He miraculously provided Moses to be their leader, sent 10 plagues on the Egyptians, helped the Israelites celebrate their first Passover, and led them out of the land of bondage. It appears that as they left for Canaan, they had no

In the society today, radical is associated with an extremist or leftist, terrorist, and etc. A radical person is someone who disrupts the stability and peace in the society. In relation with the book, I cannot understand before on why Alinsky should use a community organizer as a personification of a radical person. A radical is somewhat negative to be used as a community organizer. It is like community organizer is peace while radical is disorder. However, as I was reading the book, I realized that a community organizer should be a radical. In the situation today, we just don’t need a person who just “organizes a

The Exodus story is a key event in regards to Israel’s history and the Old Testament. Exodus is often seen as the beginning for the Israelites in regards to their journey of faith. In Exodus it covers many events which includes Moses being called by God to lead the slaves, the escape of Egypt, wandering in the Sinai desert for forty years, establishing a covenant with God, receiving the Torah, and getting settled in the new land that they were called to. The Torah is known as the instruction from God that was given to Moses and then passed on to the Israel’s people. Passover is an event that has important significance still to this day. Jews still celebrate this event every year as a way to show the importance of passing through the life of

God wanted Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. He eventually took up the mantle and made his return to Egypt. This began the third 40 year period. Upon return to Egypt, he patterned up with his brother, Aaron in taking up the task to lead the Israelites. God worked through Moses to inflict 10 plagues on the Egyptians as Pharaoh initially refused to let the Israelites go, the last of them finally persuaded Pharaoh to let the Israelites go.

Alinsky’s rules for radicals were written by Saul Alinsky in 1972. The rules were created to develop a process for organization. Alinsky’s rules were broken into two different types, tactics with 13 rules and ends and means with 11 rules. The four rules I chose to discuss were from the tactics list of rules. Alinsky’s rules for radicals are applicable in many ways and also are somewhat biased.

It has been reported by many of Pharoahs staff that Moses and his brother Aaron repeatedly came before Pharaoh and demanded to let their people go free. These demands were refused.

Alinsky’s purpose for the Rules for Radicals was to make a guide for prospective community electives to use in bringing low-income communities, the "Have and Not’s", by bring the low-income communities closer to social, political, legal and economic gain in order to give equality and justify the present establishment that promoted one’s inequality. Within it, Alinsky meth’s, that he had learned throughout life experiences from community organization. Alinsky lessons,” is the oldest and largest community organizing network in the United States” (Harris, Maloney, & Rother.2004. p269).

The story of Passover began with the arrival of Jacob and his family in Egypt to be with son Joseph who had become Viceroy of all Egypt. When Joseph and his brothers died and the children of Israel multiplied in the land of Egypt, King Pharaoh chose to forget all that Joseph had done for Egypt - transforming it into the wealthiest country in the world at the time. He decided to take action against the influence and growing numbers of the children of Israel. He summoned his council and they advised him to enslave these people and oppress them before they grew too powerful. Pharaoh embarked upon a policy of limiting the personal freedom of the Hebrews, putting heavy taxes on them and recruiting their men into forced

God wanted to Hebrews to be let free from Egypt. To accomplish this God sent ten plagues to Egypt. At this time Moses was the leader of the Hebrews. Moses led his people out of Egypt and into the desert. They wondered the desert for 40 years until they found the land that God had promised them. Joshua led the Hebrews to take over the land from the people who lived there before the Hebrews were

Pharaoh the new king of Egypt became frightened and then he began to enslave the Israelites, the more they were struck them with hard labor the more the Israelites multiplied. God in his infinite mercy heard the outcry of the Hebrews; Exodus 2:24. God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush; Exodus 4:16, God showed his sovereign power in the land of Egypt. The Israelites were eventually delivered from the Pharaoh when they crossed the red sea.

Moses is an effective Prophet due to his faithfulness to God; his unification of the Hebrews; and dedication to his mission. Like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Moses sees the harsh persecution of his people in Egypt. Fleeing for his life after killing an Egyptian, Moses is living a quiet life, married, tending to his children and his father-in-law’s flocks. However, when God interrupts Moses’s life and calls upon him to deliver the Israelites from purgatory, Moses answers God’s call. Despite his fears,

Moses was a leader of the Hebrews and probably the most important figure in Judaism. He led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and into the Promise Land. His story is told in the book of Exodus, and begins when he was first born during the time that the pharaoh of Egypt declared that all male Hebrew babies were to be drowned at birth. Moses’ mother Yocheved, hid Moses and placed him in a basket in the reeds of the Nile River, where he was then found by the pharaoh’s daughter, who kept Moses and raised him as her own. In the story of Moses, he grows up and stumbles upon an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. Out of anger Moses murders the Egyptian, and flees to Midian to escape his crime (Hays, 2000). In Midian, Moses rests besides a well,