Reveille for Radicals

226 Pages·1969·1.66 MB·English

by  Saul Alinsky

SAUL D. ALINSKY
Reveille for Radicals
“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern
from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were
I to make a whore of my soul. . . Thomas Paine
University of Chicago Press • Chicago, Illinois
University of Chicago Press • Chicago 37
Agent: Cambridge University Press • London
Copyright 1946 by The University of Chicago. All rights
reserved. Published 1945. Composed and Printed by The
Gallery Press, New York.
To Helene.

CONTENTS
PART I
Call Me Rebel
What Is a Radical?.......................................................... 11
1
Where Is the Radical Today?........................................ 32
2
The Crisis............................................................................ 62
3
PART II
The Building of People’s Organizations
4 77
5 Native Leadership............................................................. 87
6. Community Traditions and Organizations . . 99
Organizational Tactics.................................................. 112
7
8. Conflict Tactics.............................................................. 153
9 174
10 Psychological Observations on Mass Organi-
192
207
11
By-Laws of the People’s Organization.................................. 221

PART I
Call Me Rebel