Tactics for radicals
1) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have (Alinsky 1972: 127).
2) Never go outside the experience of your people (Alinsky 1972: 127).
3) Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy (Alinsky 1972: 127).
4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules (Alinsky 1972: 128).
5) Ridicule is man's most potent weapon (Alinsky 1972: 128).
6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy (Alinsky 1972: 128).
7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag (Alinsky 1972: 128).
8 Keep the pressure on (Alinsky 1972: 128).
9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself (Alinsky 1972: 129).
10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition (Alinsky 1972: 129).
11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside (Alinsky 1972: 129).
12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative (Alinsky 1972: 130).
13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it (Alinsky 1972: 130).
Saul Alinsky’s ideas
1) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have (Alinsky 1972: 127).
2) Never go outside the experience of your people (Alinsky 1972: 127).
3) Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy (Alinsky 1972: 127).
4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules (Alinsky 1972: 128).
5) Ridicule is man's most potent weapon (Alinsky 1972: 128).
6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy (Alinsky 1972: 128).
7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag (Alinsky 1972: 128).
8 Keep the pressure on (Alinsky 1972: 128).
9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself (Alinsky 1972: 129).
10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition (Alinsky 1972: 129).
11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside (Alinsky 1972: 129).
12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative (Alinsky 1972: 130).
13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it (Alinsky 1972: 130).
Saul Alinsky’s ideas