David Thomson
2009-10-31 19:15:51
“He takes 60s radicals to task for trashing the American flag (xviii) and for setting up any barriers to communication through attachment to counterculture symbols like long hair.”
Saul Alinsky was also unbelievably successful in convincing Roman Catholics that his class war social philosophy was reconcilable to theirs. So much so, papal loyalist Jacques Maritain bizarrely wrote that his concept of People’s Organizations shows “the manner in which one of our great problems—how real leaders can emerge from and be chosen by real people—is to be solved…Saul Alinsky’s book (Reveille for Radicals) is specifically American.”
