[Q] - In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a
swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a
‘community organiser’.
This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of
community organisation as a way of promoting social change ‘from the
bottom up’. The impression is that community organising is a worthy if
woolly and ultimately ineffectual grassroots activity. This is to miss
something of the greatest importance: that in the world of Barack
Obama, community organisers are a key strategy in a different game
altogether; and the name of that game is revolutionary Marxism.
The seditious role of the community organiser was developed by an
extreme left intellectual called Saul Alinsky. He was a radical
Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972, had had a profound
influence on the highest levels of the Democratic party. Alinsky was a
‘transformational Marxist’ in the mould of Antonio Gramsci, who
promoted the strategy of a ‘long march through the institutions’ by
capturing the culture and turning it inside out as the most effective
means of overturning western society. In similar vein, Alinsky
condemned the New Left for alienating the general public by its
demonstrations and outlandish appearance. The revolution had to be
carried out through stealth and deception. Its proponents had to
cultivate an image of centrism and pragmatism. A master of
infiltration, Alinsky wooed Chicago mobsters and Wall Street
financiers alike. And successive Democratic politicians fell under his
spell.
His creed was set out in his book ‘Rules for Radicals’ – a book he
dedicated to Lucifer, whom he called the ‘first radical’. It was
Alinsky for whom ‘change’ was his mantra. And by ‘change’, he meant a
Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means
which turned society inside out. This had to be done through
systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic
middle class by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda
designed to destroy it. And the way to do this, he said, was through
‘people’s organisations’. -
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.thtml
Read the whole thing, there will be a test is you have any questions.
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