From the "just when you thought you'd seen everything file" comes the revelation that the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States, has an interesting book in its "Recommended Reading" section. That book is none other than Radical Marxist and Community Organizer, Saul Alinsky's, "Rule for Radicals." Barack Obama, the nation's leading radical "Community Organizer", corrupt ACORN, and Saul Alinsky's, "Rules for Radicals," have indivisible ties (listen: HERE).
From the NEA's own website, where you can even purchase the book:
Alinsky devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth:
1. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.2. "Never go outside the experience of your people.3. "Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.4. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.6. "A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.8. "Keep the pressure on.9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.10. "Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."The real action is in the enemy's reaction. The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. Tactics, like life, require that you move with the action."Alinsky was hated and defamed by powerful enemies, proof that his tactics worked. His simple formula for success..."Agitate + Aggravate + Educate + Organize"
It's no mystery that the NEA is a left-leaning organization. I had no idea, however, that they were radically far left. From the NEA's Vision, Mission, and Values section (bold added):
Collective Action. We believe individuals are strengthened when they work together for the common good. As education professionals, we improve both our professional status and the quality of public education when we unite and advocate collectively.
Terms like "public good", "common good", and "the collective" have been used by Socialists, Communists, and Fascists to warrant the demolishing of individual rights and freedom.
It's no small wonder that Ayn Rand's books, printed decades ago, are making a huge comeback and that the U. S. Constitution was recently on the best sellers' list. Ayn Rand, a Russian immigrant to the United States, knew a few things about Communism:
The political philosophy of collectivism is based on a view of man as a congenital incompetent, a helpless, mindless creature who must be fooled and ruled by a special elite with some unspecified claim to superior wisdom and a lust for power.
The tribal notion of “the common good” has served as the moral justification of most social systems—and of all tyrannies—in history. The degree of a society’s enslavement or freedom corresponded to the degree to which that tribal slogan was invoked or ignored.
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