Rules For Radicals [Limited Time]

Tactics should stay within your group's expertise but outside the enemy's, while being enjoyable to maintain momentum.

Alinsky’s 13 rules focus on psychological warfare and strategic, enjoyable action, including utilizing ridicule and personalizing targets to maintain pressure. Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky - The Commons Rules for Radicals

Power is often what the enemy thinks you have. Tactics should stay within your group's expertise but

Use ridicule, constant pressure, and threats to force the opposition into mistakes. not abstract entities.

Alinsky’s core tactics emphasize psychological pressure, ethical flexibility, and using an opponent's own systems against them. Key principles include:

Always provide a constructive alternative for when the attack succeeds.

Targets should be personalized, frozen, and polarized to make them specific individuals, not abstract entities.