American community organizer from Chicago who wrote Rules for Radicals and Reveille for Radicals — the foundational texts of American left community organizing — whose tactical manual for power-building through local community organizations influenced generations of activists.
Created the tactical manual for left community organizing — Rules for Radicals' argument that power concedes nothing without a demand and that organizers must use the tactics available to them (ridicule, moral jiu-jitsu, using the enemy's rules against them) provided the playbook for American left activism from the Great Society through Barack Obama.
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