Rules for Radicals Audiobook (Free)

First published in 1971, Guidelines for Radicals is Saul Alinsky’s impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive interpersonal switch and know “the difference between being truly a realistic radical and being a rhetorical 1.” Written in the midst of radical political advancements whose path Alinksy was among the initial to question, this volume displays his design at its greatest. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky could combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with a complete insistence on rational political discourse and adherence towards the American democratic tradition.

“Alinsky’s methods and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a [Barack] Obama to work on Chicago’s South Side in the 1980s….Alinsky impressed a young [Hillary] Clinton, who was simply developing up in Park Ridge at that time Alinsky was the director from the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago.” -Chicago Sun-Times