Breaking The Necks Of Right-Wingers

"Society has good reason to fear the Radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the Radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while Liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, Radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of Conservatives."

-- Saul Alinsky
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It was a figure of speech.

"It was a figure of speech".

Why don't you post what YOU think about this statement.

His point is easily understandable. "Radicals" have led all significant movements for social change in contrast to many liberals who frequently have been pulled kicking and screaming to support such movements. Liberals have rarely led, radicals have always led.

Did you actually think that Alinsky was advocating "breaking necks"?

movement from the left knowing THEIR followers believe the left is godless and violent.

and leave these Dem appeasers to their agenda of kinder, gentler, compassionate corporate fascism.

but I am so happy that radicals exist. I am glad that there is at least one self-described socialist in Congress. It warms my heart to hear about anarchists fighting police at globalization summits. I identify with the populists or the labor radicals of a hundred years ago. Without them, we'd still be living in the Gilded Age.

Radicals are often not the best people to be in charge of government, but they are the engine of change. Nothing happens without hell raising and throwing bricks.

These things tend to go down the memory hole. The Seattle general strike of 1919. The suffragettes who disrupted the unveiling of the statue of liberty. The strikers shot by Pinkerton forces. Successors are badly needed.

Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederickson. "I know I'm a radical." I say "Let's Go." And what we need is a revolution.