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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Rules for Radicals Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by 10/2010 Please Social revolutions are not
something that is limited to the pages of history. Indeed, revolution is a living breathing entity that has applications even in todays world, perhaps more so in todays world
than ever before in fact. Those that contemplate revolution, however, can find little about its mechanisms. That is because there has been a deliberate effort to eliminate printed
revolutionary ideology (Alinsky, 1989). Even relatively recent revolutions like the American Revolution are characterized by the obvious absence of printed revolutionary ideology. We have the Declaration of Independence
itself (and the Federalist Papers of course) but little else has survived to illustrate the voiced revolutionary ideology that characterized the time. While we tend to remember revolutions (especially
the older revolutions and most certainly the American Revolution) almost as being sacred, when they were occurring there was a deliberate effort to eliminate all printed material pertaining to them.
What we find in the US is certainly not the exception. Indeed, "all societies discourage and penalize ideas and writings that threaten the ruling status quo" (Alinsky, 1989, p.
7). Saul Alinskis "Rules of Order" defiantly stands as one of the exceptions. Alinsky (1989) that in order to find information
on the mechanics of revolution one has to typically turn to the communist literature. This fact, has translated into a concerning phenomenon. As Saul Alinsky (1989) explains in
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