Rules for Radicals

Saul Alinsky's 1971 guide to community organizing — providing 13 rules for effective power-building and political action — the most influential organizing manual and the most cited radical politics strategy book.

Creates the radical organizing manual — Rules for Radicals provides the clearest strategic guide to building power from below; its rules ('Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it'; 'Power comes in two forms — organized people and organized money') are the most practical political strategy instructions written for outsiders.