Saul Alinsky

My theoretical tendencies on social change are most aligned with critical theory. This is not because I am overly critical of all aspects of society, however, I am most often critical of the structural systems in place that appear to work as machines of oppression and interest groups rather than social justice and equality. This personal predisposition supports an approach that is congruent with structural social work theory. Structural social work critiques existing social, economic, and…

JOINING THE FRAY: GARRET KEIZER’S LOADED LIBERAL WAKE UP CALL Published in Harper’s Magazine, Garret Keizer’s “Loaded” uses race as a way of demanding that, as citizens of the United States, we wake up from our progressive indifference. The brilliant author flips his intended audience’s liberal beliefs and uses it against them to successfully prove his point. The majority of Keizer’s essay is seemingly about the gun debate. The lefty audience is likely to have strong anti-gun opinion, whereas…

“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict” (Saul Alinsky). Throughout the world, there are always flaws that are portrayed in our society, and it is necessary to challenge these flaws with the intention of producing a change in the status quo. Furthermore, when people do challenge these flaws an opposing side is always present; thus, conflict is…

and Marxists, posing as Democrats. Obama, Clinton and Sanders, respectively Marxist, progressive and Maoist. ' 'True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits, and infiltrate the system from within ' '. Alinsky, Saul David. Rules for Radicals. N.p.: Vintage, 1972. Print. What is cultural Marxism? Mistakenly, Marx…

The bedrock of our Western Civilization is unrecognizable since Barack Obama began his reign of terror on the American people and institutions of our country. Leftist politicians of The New Democratic Socialist Party, and the same sycophantic media that placed him in the White House, abets him at every turn. Events of the last few years leave us pondering how we got to the point where up is down, down is up and the animals run the zoo. Crisis after crisis seemingly vies for our attention, and we…

concentrate more on the bigger picture, the overall causes of problems and the measures that need to be introduced in order to fix those problems, rather than trying to fix the problems on a more short-term basis. I feel that the following story that Saul Alinsky once told is an excellent example of the focus of Social Policy students. A man was walking by the side of a river when he noticed a body floating down along the stream. A fisherman saved the drowning person. The cycle keeps repeating…

The United States is a country founded on ideals and unfulfilled aspirations of a perfect nation in which all are equal and no one group of people has too much power. Our history is filled with the constant struggle between fulfilling those ideals and maintaining status quo and allowing the nation to stagnate or regress allowing inequality to reign and certain groups to control the country. While our nation has struggled on this point it bears to ask whether real political and social change is…