SAUL ALINSKY - 2

Saul Alinsky – 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Preface: The truth is powerful and painful. This is the second in a series on Alinsky. We continue with excerpts from David Horowitz’ booklet, “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution – The Alinsky Model.”* This from the last chapter in the booklet: Revolutionary Means and Ends.

In his first, Reveille for Radicals Alinsky wrote, “While liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives”… This is not because radicals begin by being unethical people. On the contrary, their passion for the future that is ethically perfect is what drives their political agendas and causes many to mistake them for idealist.*

But the very nature of this future - a world without poverty, without war, without racism, and without “sexism” – is so desirable, so noble, so perfect in contrast to everything that exists as to justify any and every means to achieve it…*

The French radical Pierre-Joseph Proudhon gave license to radicals to steal and destroy in socialism’s most famous epigraph: “Property is Theft,” In reality, of course, it is socialism that is theft…*

The real question according to Alinsky is “Does this particular end justify this particular means?” But this is disingenuous, since radicals are in a permanent war and “The third rule of the ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.”...*

Here is how Alinsky answers the question about immoral means: Everybody does it. “To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt and bloody. Life is a corrupting process … he who fears corruption fears life.” Since life is corrupt everyone is corrupt and corruption is just business as usual – “CHICAGO STYLE.” “IN ACTION”, Alinsky writes, “one” does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind. The choice must always be for the latter.” But who is to determine what is good for mankind?*

Dostoevsky famously wrote that “if God does not exist then everything is permitted.” What he meant was that if human beings do not have a conception of the good that is outside themselves, then they will act as gods with nothing to restrain them. Alinsky is already there: the evil that radicals may do is already justified by the fact that they do it for the salvation of mankind…*

The sadistic dictator, Fidel Castro, one of Alinsky’s radical heroes, summarized this principle in a famous formulation: “Within the revolution everything is possible.” The revolution – the radical cause – is the way, the truth and the life…

In Alinsky’s “the open society” in the case of the current left, “social justice” These ideas are sentimental and seductive enough to persuade their followers that it is alright to commit fraud, mayhem and murder – usually in epic doses – to enter the promised land… What radicals like Saul Alinsky create is not salvation but chaos. And presidential disciples of Alinsky, what will they create?*

George H. Kubeck – Do we see crazy ideas; normal in the culture of death & violence?

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