Title: Rebel without a clue
Product review: Mr Alinsky is really a symptom, rather than a shaper, of his times. Anyone who encountered the students for a democratic society or their brethren will be well acquainted with the breed. This book is useful if your goal is to understand how a spoiled juvenile from a, (relatively), wealthy, privileged background would approach social change. Starting from the position of most adolescents, (the assumption of absolute moral and intellectual authority based upon little knowledge and no practical experience at having to actually make a life in the real world), Mr Alinsky goes into great detail how to organize a 60's style counterculture movement. Productive? No, not really. But perfectly reasonable to a rebellious adolescent dabbling at cultural revolution. After all, any real damage done will be to the working middle or lower class, and daddy will still be happy to bail you out if anything goes wrong.
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