Rules for Radicals week four
Please Read
Tactics p 125 -164
The Genesis of Tactic Proxy p. 165 to 183
The Way Ahead p. 184
NOTES:
Tactics
1) Doing what you can with what you have.
2) Now just what you have, but what they think you have.
3) Never go outside the experience of your people.
4) Whenever possible go outside the experience of your enemy.
5) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
a. Ridicule
6) A good tactic is enjoyed by your people.
7) A tactic thats drags too long, becomes a drag.
8) Keep the pressure on.
9) The threat is more terrifying than the thing.
10) Premise is the development of operations to keep pressure on.
11) Push a negative hard and deep enough and it will break through the counterside.
12) Constructive Alternatives for when you win.
13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
a. Laugh at the enemy.
14) Lots of people.no moneyuse the people.
a. Flatulence
b. shit in
c. Gum chewing
d. Shop & return
Competition
1) The Haves compete with each othermake them
Their own Petard
1) Make them live up to their rules.
Time in Jail
1) Right reasons, short time.
Time in Tactics
1) Right moment
2) Short attention span.
New Tactics and Old
Genesis of Tactics
1) No charts or rules, tactics are a natural flow.
2) False mythology of genius is really more likely convenience
3) Proxy- get to the stockholder meetings
a. Proxies for the people would mean revolution.
The Way Ahead
1) The white middle class must engage.
2) To reject them is to lose them.
3) Must reform them.
4) Constant war machine
5) Begin with the experience of the middle class.
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Summary:
500-800 words
- Why is it so important to stay inside the experience of your people? What does it mean to make the enemy live up to their own rules and how does it relate to ridicule?
- What tactics can folks with no money employ? What is the relationship between genius and convenience when organizing?
- How do you feel about Alinksy arguments for the “Way Ahead”? Is victory possible without the white middle class? How can they be reformed?
Reaction papers to reflect answering the posted questions from a personal, reflective standpoint. I am not looking for a summary, but more so an interpretation of the reading from your personal perspective.
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