If it was only Cloward-Piven we had to worry about.

Saul David Alinsky was an American community organizer and writer best known for his book, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing and his teachings have influenced several prominent national leaders including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Fred Ross. In fact, Fred Ross, who worked for Alinsky, was the principal mentor for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Hillary Clinton’s senior honors thesis on Saul Alinsky, written at Wellesley College, noted that Alinsky’s personal efforts were a large part of his method. As The Nation magazine puts it, “Obama worked in the organizing tradition of Saul Alinsky, who made Chicago the birthplace of modern community organizing. . In 1988 Mr. Obama wrote an article which later became the fourth chapter of a book, After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois.
In Rules for Radicals (his final work, published in 1971 one year before his death), he addressed the 1960s generation of radicals, outlining his views on organizing for mass power. In the first chapter, opening paragraph of the book Alinsky writes, “What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.” Here is Saul Alinsky’s dedication to his own book: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer. Yes, that’s right folks, Saul Alinsky dedicated “Rules for Radicals” to Satan. That is in fact the essence of what it means to be a radical — to be willing to destroy the values, structures and institutions that sustain the society we live in. Marx himself famously cited Alinsky’s first rebel (using another of his names, Mephistopheles): “Everything that exists deserves to perish.” “True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties. When asked about death, Alinsky replied “They’ll send me to hell — and I’ll organize it.”