The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky

Alec Baldwin narrates the story of legendary community organizer, Saul Alinsky, and his modern-day legacy.

"The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy," narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, examines the life and legacy of the controversial community organizer Alinsky and his modern-day legacy.

The first half of the program chronicles the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky and three key Alinsky organizations to show how his techniques developed over time including The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, in Chicago's blighted stockyards in the 1930's. By forming an unprecedented coalition between the Catholic Church and the Meatpackers Union, Alinsky was able to force several landmark concessions from the meatpacking industry. These three organizations show how Alinsky's ideas, in turn, influenced the civil rights movement, the farmworkers struggle and many Vietnam era political protests...

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[DavidHillI]

Saul Alinsky wasn't a religious man. He found any extremist ideology abhorrent. That's why he was neither a self-professed "christian" nor was he ever a Communist. That said, he dedicates his book to Lucifer only because he looks at lucifer as a character to be looked at as the mythological prototype for dissent & rebellion. Without rebellion, the USA wouldn't exist! He was not in favor of taking away individual rights. That's just paranoid fantasy. "Free Enterprise" has never existed in the USA

[Akatam0t0ma]

@Corporations8MyBaby:

Yes, it IS the fault of the "1 institution that has the power to regulate and restrain their greed", and if you weren't such a willfully ignorant economic illiterate and had an understanding of things like trade barriers and incentive structures, you would have known how and why.

And since greed is a human emotion, no government in the world can EVER restrain it, as history has consistently and invariably demonstrated. So instead of trying to fight against it...

[MaxiSota]

Most Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" concepts and tactics are modernized directly from Marx's "Communist Manifesto" concepts and tactics.

[nalejbank]

@Call2Reason Go Ron Paul... a man of peace and truth!  Unlike Alinsky!

[MrBudcole]

@DavidHillI Completely WRONG! And stated perfectly by someone who wants it - so badly - to be true. Saul was AGAINST the "middle class" system. He wanted only ONE class - the entitled. The problem with that scenario - as with all Socialist ideals - is that someone has to be left "in charge" of the resources. Who? Well, of course - the "benevolent" government. It is - quite simply "Animal Farm". And generation-after-generation manages to convince themselves that "these pigs are different".

[readyxxi]

@DavidHillI NO ONE would dedicate a book to Lucifer even as a joke and saul alinsky was a communist and is a dirt bag to say the least ! and dems love him HELL BALWIN IS A DEM  AND A DIRT BAG

[stephenabm]

Saul Alinsky was a dedicated Marxist - Leninist and taught his followers in this mindset. Saul, like Marx was an unethical, immoral and an evil man and dedicated some of his writings to Lucifer! Obama was one of his students.

[gnaples]

"Too bad this asshole didn't die earlier" - ditto baldwin

[aswanus909]

@ZmanHot because the poor usually do not have the same resources to search out and acquire information like the other socio economic groups. They are less pandered to and would be ignored completely if not for someone organizing them. It is more about improving their lot than voting. But they need lobbyists more than community organizers. Works well for the rich

[ZmanHot]

I don't understand; why do you need someone else to organize your asses to go to the polls? Why can't the poor just go an vote themselves? If it's due to not having a residency, then having community organizers isn't going to do anything for you anyways.

[Thescreensaverr]

Occutards

[falcondriver100]

Too bad this asshole didn't die earlier, but I'll take 63........