Of course, anyone claiming the "common good" is the worst form of terrorist, as there is no such thing as a "common good" and those who invoke the term are usually imposing their will on a segment of society. He wants the creation of a kind of society where all of man's potentialities could be realized: a world where man could live in dignity, security, happiness, and peace-a world based on a morality of mankind" (p 15). He wants a world in which the worth of the individual is recognized. He is that person who genuinely and completely believes in mankind. He is that person to whom the common good is the greatest personal value. "What is the American radical? The radical is that unique person who actually believes what he says. Alinsky distinguishes his "radical" ideology from the liberal, the communist, the religious, and the conservative. He plainly states his own ideology in Reveille, which he tries to avoid doing in Rules. As Alinsky himself notes in his '69 introduction, he was full of much more piss and vinegar in this work than in his later Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. I actually have the 1969 version of the 1946 book, with an updated introduction and afterward by Alinsky.
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