- Alinsky, Saul D. Rules for Radicals. New York:
Random House, 1971. ISBN 0-679-72113-4.
- Ignore the title. Apart from the last two chapters, which
are dated, there is remarkably little ideology here and a wealth of
wisdom directly applicable to anybody trying to accomplish something in
the real world, entrepreneurs and Open Source software project leaders
as well as social and political activists. Alinsky's unrelenting
pragmatism and opportunism are a healthy antidote to the compulsive quest for purity
which so often ensnares the idealistic in such endeavours.
February 2004 