o'communist/Marxist fellow-traveler - Saul Alinsky's 8 Steps to create a socialist state

From: bb Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 Subject: Saul Alinsky

Here is something chilling for you to read...

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer.  He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing.  He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals.

Saul Alinsky Born Saul David Alinsky January 30, 1909 Chicago, Illinois Died June 12, 1972 (aged 63) Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Cause of death Heart attack Education University of Chicago, Ph.B.1930 U. of Chicago Graduate School, criminology, 1930-1932. Occupation Community organizer, writer, political activist Known for Political activism, writing,community organization Notable work(s) Reveille for Radicals (1946);  Rules for Radicals (1971) Spouse(s) Helene Simon of Philadelphia (m. June 9, 1932 - her death) Jean Graham (May 15, 1952 - 1970; divorced) Irene McInnis Alinsky (m. May 1971) Children Katherine and David (by Helene) Awards Pacem in Terris Award, 1969

How To Create a Social State by Saul Alinsky There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state.  The first is the most important.  1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people  2) Poverty - Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.  3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level.  That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.  4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government.  That way you are able to create a police state.  5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)  6) Education  - Take control of what people read and listen to - take control of what children learn in school. 7) Religion - Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools  8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor.  This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.  Any of this sound familiar? below excerpt quoted from: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314 "Identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power  Created a blueprint for revolution under the banner of "social change"  Two of his most notable modern-day disciples are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of infiltration -- coupled with a measure of confrontation -- that have been central to revolutionary political movements in the United States in recent decades.  He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left. Though Alinsky is rightfully understood to have been a leftist, his legacy is more methodological than ideological.  He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power.  His motto was, "The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results." [..] But Alinsky's brand of revolution was not characterized by dramatic, sweeping, overnight transformations of social institutions.  As Richard Poe puts it, "Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process.  The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties."  He advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of these institutions, and to introduce changes from that platform.  This was precisely the tactic of "infiltration" advocated by Lenin and Stalin.  As Communist International General Secretary Georgi Dimitroff told the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern in 1935: "Comrades, you remember the ancient tale of the capture of Troy.  Troy was inaccessible to the armies attacking her, thanks to her impregnable walls.  And the attacking army, after suffering many sacrifices, was unable to achieve victory until, with the aid of the famous Trojan horse, it managed to penetrate to the very heart of the enemy's camp.""

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