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This isn't an endorsement of Alinsky, but at least someone else who understands who/what he was. If you actually take time to understand those you oppose, you make for a more worthy opponent.
Heaven forbid you might actually have common ground somewhere! ;)

He was many things that I don't like, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is never a good idea.

Rules for radical is a 'must read', not to beat the philosophy, but to take the intelligent things from it.

Stupid, he definitely wasn't.