"I'd Organize Hell" - Saul Alinsky TV interview 1966

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Résumé

TLDRI denna videopresentation diskuteras Saul Alinsky, en kontroversiell person som blivit en symbol för kampen mot fattigdom i USA. Alinsky betraktas av många som en räddare för de 'utan' och kritiserar etableringen för dess misslyckanden när det handlar om att hantera fattigdom. Han leder Industrial Areas Foundation, som arbetar för att organisera människor från låginkomstområden för att ge dem en röst och makt över sina egna liv. Alinsky argumenterar att en förändring är nödvändig och att det är felaktigt att undvika att konfrontera de som innehar makt. Hans metoder och hans ofta provocerande stil väcker både beundran och kritik, vilket visar på det polariserande inflytandet han har i samhällsfrågor.

A retenir

  • ✨ Alinsky ses av många som en räddare för de fattiga.
  • 💥 Han kritiserar etablissemangets oförmåga att bekämpa fattigdom.
  • 📣 Alinsky leder Industrial Areas Foundation för att organisera de marginaliserade.
  • 🔍 Han förespråkar gräsrotsorganisering och lokal delaktighet.
  • ⚔️ Alinsky får ofta dödshot men fortsätter att kämpa.
  • 📈 Han anser att makt och röst är avgörande för de fattiga.
  • 💬 Han kritiserar konsensuspolitik som undvikande av kontroverser.
  • 🚨 Alinsky betonar vikten av handling mot orättvisor.
  • ✊ Han ser på förändring som en del av livets lag.
  • ❓ Alinsky accepterar osäkerhet i sina personliga tro.

Chronologie

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    Saul Alinsky, en kontroversiell figur, betraktas av många som en räddare för de fattiga och kulturellt berövade. Hans organisation syftar till att omvandla den svaga rösten i samhället till en kraftfull röst som kräver erkännande och delaktighet i sin egen välfärd. Alinsky kritiserar djupt de politiska program som påstås bekämpa fattigdom och ifrågasätter det system som han menar misshandlar de resurser som skulle hjälpa de behövande.

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    Alinsky betonar vikten av att arbete utförs på inbjudan från de lokala samhällena och han avvisar den koloniala mentaliteten där externa krafter bestämmer vad som är bäst för de fattiga. Han argumenterar för självständighet och makt för de fattiga, och påpekar att de behöver plats vid beslutsfattande bordet för att få sina röster hörda.

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    Alinsky uttrycker sin cyniska men realistiska syn på världen, där förändring är nödvändig och där han fortsätter att kämpa för att de fattiga ska få en ekonomisk plattform och politisk representation. Han menar att kampen för rättvisa och jämlikhet är en fortsättning på den amerikanska revolutionen.

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    Med en brännande känsla för orättvisor, belyser Alinsky de sociala och ekonomiska klyftorna i samhället. Han använder provokativa och utmanande ordalag för att påminna samhället om de sårbara gruppernas situation och kritiserar de som förblir passiva inför orättvisor.

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    Alinsky erkänner hoten mot sitt liv men förhåller sig med en fatalistisk attityd och diskuterar honingsvis hur samhället ofta undviker kontroverser. Han anser att det är viktigt att mer människor blir uppriktiga om samhällets problem för att åstadkomma verklig förändring.

Afficher plus

Carte mentale

Vidéo Q&R

  • Who is Saul Alinsky?

    Saul Alinsky is a notable figure recognized for his advocacy for the poor and marginalized in society.

  • What organization does Alinsky lead?

    He is the executive director of the Industrial Areas Foundation.

  • What is Alinsky's approach to organizing communities?

    He emphasizes grassroots organizing and works to empower local people to demand a voice in their welfare.

  • How does Alinsky feel about the establishment's war on poverty?

    He criticizes it as 'political pornography' and believes it benefits the welfare industry without effecting real change.

  • What are Alinsky's views on power and self-interest?

    He believes that the ability to act and representation at the decision-making table are fundamental for the marginalized.

  • What threats has Alinsky received?

    Alinsky has faced death threats due to his controversial statements and activism.

  • How does Alinsky view societal change?

    He sees change as a law of life and believes that there must be a confrontation with the status quo.

  • What does Alinsky think of consensus in politics?

    He views consensus as avoidance of controversy and believes it undermines genuine moral responsibility.

  • What is Alinsky's philosophy on action against injustices?

    He believes that inaction in the face of evil is immoral and that action is necessary for progress.

  • How does Alinsky describe his personal beliefs?

    He identifies as having unconventional religious beliefs and acknowledges a comfort with uncertainty about life's answers.

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    instead of northern Mississippi so we
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    can all get freedom and equality down
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    Saul Alinsky moves into an Afflicted
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    all right I'll probably get knocked off
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    I
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    always some kooky crackpot he'll say
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    you know I'll get National Headlines by
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    Michael Murphy well you know this then
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    is an opening frame that we put around
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    the self-portrait of one of the most
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    controversial figures in today's gallery
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    of American radicals
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    on this kpix report Saul Alinsky will
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    share with you his searching personal
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    assessment of himself as he did with us
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    in this exclusive half hour titled I'd
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    organize hell
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    my name is Jack bunzl we'll journey to
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    Carmel California to meet saulinsky in
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    just a few moments there is no nice way
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    of getting things changed
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    and it's time that I got a good part of
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    our country began
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    to wake up and live in the world as it
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    is
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    rather than the world is we would like
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    it to be
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    Saul Alinsky has become a national
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    byword synonymous with poverty he is the
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    severest critic of the so-called
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    establishment and its handling or
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    mishandling of enormous sums of money
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    intended to alleviate the misery of the
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    poor
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    olinsky is executive director of the
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    industrial areas Foundation a business
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    that will upon invitation from the poor
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    and from religious groups move into a
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    ghetto area and literally organize the
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    poor into a powerful articulate Force
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    demanding a voice and a hand in the
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    administration of their own welfare
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    tonight on kpix reports it is our
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    privilege to have as guest commentator
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    John H bunzl whose television series The
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    American voter won a national award
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    author of several volumes on American
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    politics and an associate professor of
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    political science at San Francisco State
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    College to comment on the impact Saul
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    levinsky has already had and may have on
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    the future I first came across
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    solilinsky through his book revelry for
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    Radicals which came out in 1946.
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    now looms as a controversial Titan
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    nationally and in recent times notably
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    in Oakland
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    his shadow has loomed off
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    two hundred thousand dollars was raised
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    by the Presbyterian church with the
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    intent of inviting olinsky's industrial
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    areas Foundation to come in to organize
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    the poor but in our exclusive meeting
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    with Saul Alinsky some weeks ago
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    the issue was in doubt
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    however his comments on it were
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    characteristically pungent
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    he lives in the Carmel Highlands in an
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    area that is in itself
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    characteristically opposed to his own
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    activities
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    we met him at his home
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    and our first questions concern the then
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    likelihood that he would make Oakland
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    the scene of his next organization of
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    the poor
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    I have started but
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    any question about our coming into
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    Oakland is purely academic
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    unless there is an across the board
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    bona fide
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    invitation from the local people
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    themselves
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    uh we're not one of these uh Colonial
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    powers like your community funds or I
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    don't know what you call them in San
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    Francisco Crusades or something we call
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    them the white feather funds very simple
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    representatives of the establishment in
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    their they operate on the basis but they
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    know what's good for the poor people and
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    and my job the poor people are going to
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    get it whether they like it or not even
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    if it kills them you know
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    we're gonna Dome God
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    and uh just like most of these agencies
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    they're put into these communities
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    without people being asked whether they
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    want them or they don't want them
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    precisely like a colonial power would
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    operate as far as
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    moving into a
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    well A Primitive Country so to so to
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    speak
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    no we do not do this we only go in upon
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    the invitation on the request of the
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    people
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    so that no one can ever say to us that
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    we're Outsiders no one can ever say to
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    us who asked you to come in here no one
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    can ever say to us what's your racket
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    we can say to the people in the
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    community
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    we're here because you asked for us to
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    come in here in Rochester New York out
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    of a population of 35
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    000 we received individual petitions
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    individually signed petitions more than
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    13
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    000 people out of 35
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    000. a new figure the number of children
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    that make up a total population 35 000
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    you can almost say that every Negron
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    Rochester signed the petitions every
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    Civil Rights group requested are coming
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    in every Church within the Negro
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    Community one Buffalo New York was a
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    budget is about 175 thousand dollars a
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    budget which has been raised now I'm
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    going to Buffalo this week
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    uh the Negro Community the low income
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    negro Community out of their own pockets
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    put up more than thirty thousand dollars
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    left budget
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    and why because they want this this is
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    their own
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    can we go in there we uh
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    we organize them
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    so they can have power and by power I
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    mean exactly the way Webster's on a
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    bridge describes it as the ability to
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    act
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    where they can become citizens
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    or because because of their power
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    they can
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    have a place of the decision-making
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    table
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    have something to say about their own
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    future each other kids
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    and as a consequence
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    uh be part of the American family
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    now this basically is well on the
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    controversy comes out of
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    a lot of the heat while it comes out of
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    a lot of things for one thing I do the
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    Unforgivable
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    you can attack The Establishment and get
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    away with it you know
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    I make a teed off at you
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    you can unsult them
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    and still survive
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    but I laugh at them and this is one
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    thing they will not tolerate
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    I'm going to be an interesting situation
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    because I'm going to keep on laughing at
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    him as long as I got breath to laugh on
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    somewhere in his background Saul Alinsky
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    developed an attitude toward life that
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    has permeated almost everything he has
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    done
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    what might be called an Outlook of
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    realism in the sense that he feels it is
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    better to expect the worst of conditions
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    if not of people because life usually
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    works out that way if he is sometimes a
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    cynic about the present State of Affairs
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    he is not by nature or commitment of
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    pessimist
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    in his comments on the kind of world
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    people would like to have and the world
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    that we really have at least as he sees
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    it one gets the feeling that he believes
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    he can have some effect on political
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    trends particularly where any war on
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    poverty is concerned in the world as it
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    is people move primarily because of
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    self-interest
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    and the world as of as
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    the real question is never has never
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    been
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    the sort of silly one about the
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    unjustifying the means it's always been
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    does this particular end justify this
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    particular means if you understand that
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    that uh
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    explains many things around and the
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    world as it is so
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    you uh
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    you have to start from where you are or
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    not from where you would wish you would
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    be
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    and uh this doesn't mean that the fact
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    that you accept the world as a Bells
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    then the slightest sense
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    that it negates or dilutes
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    their desire
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    to strive towards the world that you
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    would like it to be
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    but if you're going to have any kind of
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    a chance of achieving the kind of world
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    you would like it to be
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    then you have to begin what the world of
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    service when we're fighting for
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    low-income groups having their their own
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    economic opportunities
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    and having the power which is which is
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    theirs by right as American citizens
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    uh
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    uh this uh this is what is basic in the
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    Civil Rights Revolution this is basic
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    with low income rights and frankly all
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    that we're doing is assuming that the
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    American Revolution began
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    in 76 but it still goes out it's going
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    to go on for a long time and this
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    country is all divided notorious and
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    radicals just like it was
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    and they're still fighting it out on the
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    same issues
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    I'm in luck the issue of representation
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    we may talk about uh the fact that the
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    poor should have political equality and
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    that we respect them and so forth but we
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    don't in fact emotionally we consider
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    them a bunch of poor slobs
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    and what do we do we go out and we
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    scramble The Works up in Vietnam for a
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    home run a friend of Penthouse South
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    Vietnam we don't have in Mississippi we
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    don't have in our District of Columbia
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    I'm all for it I think our air force and
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    our army should after they finish in
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    Vietnam should come back and bomb the
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    hell out of Mississippi you know
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    what would it be Southern Mississippi
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    instead of northern Mississippi so we
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    can all get freedom and equality down
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    there too
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    we were impressed by the fervor of Saul
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    Alinsky whenever the subject of poverty
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    deprivation
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    Justice and Injustice entered his
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    comments
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    the history of the world would clearly
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    have been very different had saulinsky
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    been in a position of supreme power at
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    the end of
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    let us say the Second World War
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    this becomes clearer from the comments
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    he has made about others who are also
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    high on his list of the arch enemies of
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    humanity
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    as of jail I have a certain amount of uh
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    42nd genital social protests in cinema
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    as my people been pushed around
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    well you know from the beginning of time
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    we're getting when uh I suppose when uh
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    the concept of of Love came on this
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    Earth way they burned us at the Paris at
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    the Inquisition and put us in a gas
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    ovens and uh
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    stuff out and so on
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    maybe it's that maybe it was something
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    uh maybe it was a rejection of my own
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    father my own father's values were
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    were strictly on the dollar side and so
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    maybe I rejected materialism on that
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    finally for me to be staying with my son
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    he was standing here you know
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    I'm sure he's rejected certain things
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    because of what I represent
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    uh maybe it's uh
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    uh maybe it's because I grew up in the
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    slums and I hated poverty I don't know
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    I do know
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    that every time I saw anything
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    whether it be a people a sharecroppers
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    or whether it be
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    uh people on strike or people uh
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    and uh suffering and they shouldn't be
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    well I'd get very very angry about it
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    and when I got angry and I'd do
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    something
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    let me let me say this
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    to me the most immoral the worst kind of
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    person
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    made there of of just human rot
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    as a kind of person
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    who doesn't do anything
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    I believe very firmly in the old Edmund
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    Burke statement that evil only triumphs
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    when good men do nothing much as I had
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    to the Nazis and I don't know anybody
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    who had any more than I did
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    I wanted everyone from a block Captain
  • 00:13:57
    up shop once the war was over
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    uh even in those conversations with the
  • 00:14:04
    editors are Harpers so
  • 00:14:07
    I was questioned about my feeling on the
  • 00:14:10
    bomb and I pointed out that one of the
  • 00:14:11
    feelings I had was some had been dropped
  • 00:14:14
    on the wrong place it should have been
  • 00:14:15
    dropped in Berlin instead of on
  • 00:14:17
    Hiroshima but unfortunately we didn't
  • 00:14:19
    have it ready at that time you know
  • 00:14:22
    you should have seen my West German mail
  • 00:14:24
    on that one if anyone thinks Nazism is
  • 00:14:26
    dead
  • 00:14:27
    but uh
  • 00:14:29
    much as I hated these Nazis
  • 00:14:32
    I hated far more of these good people
  • 00:14:34
    who would look out their Windows see
  • 00:14:37
    these political prisoners being put into
  • 00:14:39
    the Bands
  • 00:14:41
    public curtains turn to each other
  • 00:14:46
    um
  • 00:14:47
    point out how horrible and moral and
  • 00:14:50
    awful it was but they did nothing
  • 00:14:52
    and you can always tell these characters
  • 00:14:54
    they go around with the marker cane on
  • 00:14:57
    them
  • 00:14:57
    you can always recognize it's branded
  • 00:15:00
    across their forehead it either reads
  • 00:15:01
    reads one of two ways
  • 00:15:04
    either
  • 00:15:05
    I agree with your objectives but not
  • 00:15:07
    with your tactics see that it absolves
  • 00:15:10
    them and you ask them well what would
  • 00:15:12
    you do
  • 00:15:13
    well I would like to think about it
  • 00:15:14
    because they haven't gotten the answers
  • 00:15:16
    Saul Alinsky has been called a Jewish
  • 00:15:18
    atheist which he vigorously denies even
  • 00:15:21
    though he admits his religious
  • 00:15:22
    convictions are unconventional
  • 00:15:25
    there is a certain fatalism in his
  • 00:15:27
    almost contemptuous attitude to the
  • 00:15:28
    threats that continue to be made on his
  • 00:15:31
    life
  • 00:15:32
    what he has to say now however is
  • 00:15:35
    underscored by his awareness that change
  • 00:15:37
    is a law of life
  • 00:15:40
    and that the social consequences will be
  • 00:15:42
    felt by all of us like it or not
  • 00:15:45
    death threats
  • 00:15:47
    uh I'll probably get knocked off fine
  • 00:15:50
    I think with all this notoriety and
  • 00:15:53
    all the stuff that goes up that there's
  • 00:15:55
    always some kooky crackpot he'll say
  • 00:15:59
    you know I'll get National Headlines by
  • 00:16:01
    knock them off but you will you know
  • 00:16:03
    I I just don't have the uh the
  • 00:16:07
    fortification of a religious faith in
  • 00:16:10
    the conventional sense I wish I did have
  • 00:16:12
    one you know then you have the answers
  • 00:16:15
    however I've long since learned uh not
  • 00:16:19
    too long in the last 10 years or so
  • 00:16:21
    I've learned to be able to live
  • 00:16:23
    comfortably without answers without Dr
  • 00:16:26
    dances
  • 00:16:27
    because I don't know what whether there
  • 00:16:29
    are such things as answers
  • 00:16:31
    take the business on a Hereafter maybe
  • 00:16:33
    there is maybe there isn't I've never
  • 00:16:35
    seen the evidence one way or the other I
  • 00:16:37
    don't expect to see it during my
  • 00:16:39
    lifetime
  • 00:16:40
    but if there is
  • 00:16:42
    I suppose given a choice I think I would
  • 00:16:45
    pick hell
  • 00:16:47
    the reason I'd pick Kel is because
  • 00:16:48
    that's where all the have-nots are
  • 00:16:51
    you know the currency of the realm ships
  • 00:16:53
    over here it's money over there it's
  • 00:16:55
    virtue but either way if you haven't got
  • 00:16:57
    it you're stuck
  • 00:16:59
    and I've spent all my life with the
  • 00:17:01
    have-nots and uh
  • 00:17:03
    and once I got into hell uh well I'd
  • 00:17:06
    start organizing just like I do down
  • 00:17:08
    here
  • 00:17:09
    and then I'd be in heaven personally you
  • 00:17:12
    know because this is the thing that
  • 00:17:14
    gives me the greatest happiness in life
  • 00:17:16
    and uh look out Heaven here we come
  • 00:17:19
    I think I'm sure there are a lot of
  • 00:17:21
    grievances that the people down there
  • 00:17:23
    have that should be worked out one way
  • 00:17:25
    or another
  • 00:17:26
    now
  • 00:17:28
    I suppose another thing which causes a
  • 00:17:31
    lot of uh hate real hate on me is uh it
  • 00:17:36
    isn't so much what I say it's the fact
  • 00:17:38
    that I say it out loud
  • 00:17:40
    these are the things that people know
  • 00:17:43
    but uh they just it isn't considered
  • 00:17:46
    tactical to talk about it you know
  • 00:17:49
    the thought it was like doing a toilet
  • 00:17:51
    in public
  • 00:17:52
    well
  • 00:17:54
    Life's too short to horse around that
  • 00:17:57
    way as far as I'm concerned
  • 00:17:59
    and uh I think that this
  • 00:18:02
    I think it'll be a lot better if a lot
  • 00:18:04
    more people did their toilet out in
  • 00:18:05
    public
  • 00:18:07
    I think oh well for example take San
  • 00:18:09
    Francisco if you ask me
  • 00:18:12
    well now San Francisco Oakland
  • 00:18:14
    well let me let me play it safe let me
  • 00:18:17
    make it Los Angeles
  • 00:18:19
    if you ask me one thing which Los
  • 00:18:22
    Angeles really needed above anything
  • 00:18:24
    else I would say what it needs is a
  • 00:18:27
    massive enema you know
  • 00:18:30
    now you can read into it just what I
  • 00:18:33
    want uh what what I'm saying but you
  • 00:18:37
    know and there isn't a guy in Los
  • 00:18:39
    Angeles who doesn't know that he's gonna
  • 00:18:41
    be honest on it
  • 00:18:43
    that is a guy who wants a who wants to
  • 00:18:46
    see uh
  • 00:18:48
    Los Angeles become more than just a
  • 00:18:51
    possible pictorial representation for an
  • 00:18:54
    essay on Sodom and Gomorrah you know
  • 00:18:56
    wherever Saul Alinsky goes and he has
  • 00:18:59
    helped organize more than two million
  • 00:19:01
    people in 44 communities over the last
  • 00:19:04
    30 years
  • 00:19:05
    he digs into what he calls a morass of
  • 00:19:08
    resignation hopelessness and despair
  • 00:19:11
    providing tactical advice and Technical
  • 00:19:13
    consultation
  • 00:19:15
    he works with the local people in as he
  • 00:19:17
    puts it rubbing raw their resentments
  • 00:19:20
    and agitating to the point of conflict
  • 00:19:23
    but in this personal assessment of
  • 00:19:25
    himself olinsky also reflected on other
  • 00:19:28
    themes
  • 00:19:30
    let me talk about something else for a
  • 00:19:32
    moment I think that our country is faced
  • 00:19:35
    with and is infected
  • 00:19:37
    what the worst
  • 00:19:39
    uh
  • 00:19:42
    uh subverting infection
  • 00:19:45
    that it has ever experienced in its
  • 00:19:47
    history
  • 00:19:48
    and what I'm referring to is something
  • 00:19:50
    called Madison Avenue public relations
  • 00:19:54
    middle class
  • 00:19:56
    self-righteous
  • 00:19:57
    moral hygiene the effects aren't
  • 00:20:01
    domestic way of loving it affects our
  • 00:20:04
    foreign policy as well it makes us
  • 00:20:07
    almost look moronic you know you watch
  • 00:20:09
    TV commercials and
  • 00:20:11
    you get a picture that the only thing
  • 00:20:12
    that the American people in particularly
  • 00:20:15
    American women are concerned with is
  • 00:20:17
    whether their wash is wider than
  • 00:20:18
    somebody else's wash however they smell
  • 00:20:21
    pretty in somebody else and
  • 00:20:23
    whether uh
  • 00:20:26
    well this is what it's become it's
  • 00:20:28
    become sort of a deodorized
  • 00:20:31
    the sterilized kind of culture and the
  • 00:20:35
    whole issue is to avoid controversy
  • 00:20:38
    even Johnson comes out with them policy
  • 00:20:41
    of consensus you know
  • 00:20:44
    no controversy controversy is bad
  • 00:20:47
    while consensus regardless of whose
  • 00:20:49
    mother comes out of is nothing more than
  • 00:20:51
    a huge pile of Madison Avenue manure
  • 00:20:54
    when you get right down to
  • 00:20:56
    what it is it's when I withdrawal
  • 00:21:00
    but go stay from that it's the kind of
  • 00:21:02
    withdrawal that says well I can't I
  • 00:21:06
    can't figure out the answers here and
  • 00:21:08
    it's just too damn bothersome so we'll
  • 00:21:10
    let Johnston do it you know and then
  • 00:21:13
    just as a consequence gets much more
  • 00:21:15
    Authority
  • 00:21:16
    and can get away with more things than
  • 00:21:19
    than any president in any other
  • 00:21:21
    situation except a war period could get
  • 00:21:23
    away with because people don't want a
  • 00:21:25
    challenge at all it becomes too complex
  • 00:21:27
    so you say well well now what are we
  • 00:21:29
    really fighting for over there right
  • 00:21:32
    uh have they ever had a free election in
  • 00:21:34
    South Vietnam
  • 00:21:35
    is this a free country do they know what
  • 00:21:38
    we're talking about on freedom
  • 00:21:40
    uh well uh
  • 00:21:43
    well then the answer always is when I
  • 00:21:45
    you talk that way in your
  • 00:21:48
    you're giving your comfort to Hanoi you
  • 00:21:51
    know Islamic comes he can't get into
  • 00:21:53
    discussions on the plane
  • 00:21:55
    uh you get uh
  • 00:21:58
    you get a situation also
  • 00:22:01
    where as part of this whole consensus
  • 00:22:03
    deal
  • 00:22:05
    there's a very uh better vindictiveness
  • 00:22:09
    of seeping into the country
  • 00:22:11
    or if you oppose somebody here
  • 00:22:13
    uh
  • 00:22:17
    there there will be sharp retaliations
  • 00:22:19
    against you
  • 00:22:21
    are almost reminiscent of its own way of
  • 00:22:23
    the old Senator McCarty days of
  • 00:22:25
    Wisconsin except on lower levels many
  • 00:22:28
    ways they would make
  • 00:22:30
    all Senator McCarthy same as sort of
  • 00:22:32
    honest you know
  • 00:22:34
    at least he was open on it
  • 00:22:36
    uh
  • 00:22:39
    there's a
  • 00:22:41
    and see this is a problem that we have
  • 00:22:43
    because our culture too
  • 00:22:46
    is so suffused with that Protestant
  • 00:22:49
    ethic of self-righteousness
  • 00:22:52
    and there's nothing worse than in a
  • 00:22:55
    combination not only of power but of
  • 00:22:56
    self-righteousness
  • 00:22:58
    I think this is a point that Fort Brent
  • 00:23:00
    was trying to reach a costume and one
  • 00:23:03
    thing for the Romans
  • 00:23:05
    to try to conquer the world but they
  • 00:23:07
    never expect them to love them and they
  • 00:23:08
    weren't making any bones about it we won
  • 00:23:10
    we're taking over power because we want
  • 00:23:13
    the power you know instead of we're
  • 00:23:15
    doing it to free you you know
  • 00:23:18
    we're doing it for you
  • 00:23:20
    whether you like it or not were we going
  • 00:23:22
    to the Dominicans how we didn't even
  • 00:23:24
    know which side we were on for the first
  • 00:23:26
    few days
  • 00:23:27
    I think are going to the Dominicans was
  • 00:23:30
    exactly on the same par
  • 00:23:33
    word for word comma for comma and Iota
  • 00:23:37
    for Iota as the Russians going into
  • 00:23:39
    Hungary I don't think there was one damn
  • 00:23:42
    bit of difference
  • 00:23:48
    zolinski has a lot of opponents certain
  • 00:23:50
    Church groups support him others attack
  • 00:23:53
    him claiming his organization incites
  • 00:23:55
    class and racial antagonisms responsible
  • 00:23:58
    men accuse him of erecting a power
  • 00:24:00
    structured dictatorship based on slum
  • 00:24:03
    dwellers
  • 00:24:03
    Julian Levy of the University of Chicago
  • 00:24:05
    accuses him of emulating the techniques
  • 00:24:08
    of Lynch moths
  • 00:24:10
    the so-called establishment of Linsky
  • 00:24:12
    attacks represents chosen city state and
  • 00:24:15
    federal government officials and
  • 00:24:16
    agencies including the office of
  • 00:24:18
    Economic Opportunity
  • 00:24:20
    no assessment of this professional and
  • 00:24:22
    self-style radical would be complete
  • 00:24:25
    without recognizing the great and
  • 00:24:26
    respected forces that oppose everything
  • 00:24:29
    olinsky stands for
  • 00:24:31
    Saul Alinsky is a symbol and perhaps a
  • 00:24:34
    byproduct of our times which are
  • 00:24:37
    characterized by forms of revolt against
  • 00:24:39
    many established Concepts while this man
  • 00:24:42
    is certainly a dramatic protagonist on
  • 00:24:44
    the stage of American drama only history
  • 00:24:46
    can adequately assess whether or not he
  • 00:24:49
    is as significant as he might appear to
  • 00:24:51
    Millions
  • 00:24:52
    in presenting this glimpse of solovinsky
  • 00:24:54
    titled I'd organize hell we have had a
  • 00:24:57
    meeting with a man who has already
  • 00:24:58
    rocked the boat on at least one of our
  • 00:25:00
    Bay Area Community fronts and May figure
  • 00:25:03
    prominently in others
  • 00:25:05
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