Read both.HomeschoolDad:
Very well written, HsD. Excellent post.Here it is…
If you have to go to war, then read Sun Tzsu. If you want to go into politics, read Alinski.
I have The Art Of War but, regrettably, have never read it all the way through (I don’t think, I could be wrong, 57 years of reading is a lot of reading). I made it a point to read Rules For Radicals a few years ago. Knocked it out in two or three hours, and I read very slowly (deliberation, not disability).
Machiavelli’s The Prince is also a must-read. That, and Rerum novarum.
I really want to think that he said this for shock value, not as a tribute to the evil one.”Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.“
— SAUL ALINSKY
Now, this doesn’t necessarily qualify him as a “follower” but…yikes!
Anything WFB took a knife to, is worth watching on general principles.Lots of fun and instructive vids on Alinsky: