Ok, a qualifier is in order up front. The author for much of the info below is of the persuasion that there is a World Order that secretly manipulates the world etc. Coupled with that paranoid assumption is a strong religious tone (I admittedly took the liberty of editing out the religious portions). Now, all that said, paranoia and religion aside (at least for now) there is a bounty of theory here that is hugely necessary to understand. Why? Because it goes toward the thought processes linked to infiltration, transformation, altering the public’s belief system through graduated compromise. This is good stuff to think about. Right now it oozes Obama et al. Read all the passages and related links. Some ventures off into CFR stuff but it is enough to make you think about the process of CHANGE.
“I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”
L. DAVID ALINSKY
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/?s_campaign=8315
Notes on Saul Alinsky and Neo-Marxism:“Alinsky’s tactics were based, not on Stalin’s revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci’s transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.
“From Twisting Truth Through Group Consensus: “Tension, created by diversity, is essential to the dialectic process. It energizes members and — when manipulated by well-trained facilitators — produces Synergy. You can’t guide people toward synthesis (compromise) unless there are opposing views — both “thesis and antithesis.” That’s why the consensus process must include all these elements:
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a diverse group
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dialoguing to consensus
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over a social issue
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led by a trained facilitator
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toward a pre-planned outcome.
The true dialectic group never reaches a final consensus, for “continual change” is an ongoing process: one step today, another tomorrow. To permanently change the way we think and relate to each other, our leaders must set the stage for conflict and compromise week after week, year after year. Dialectical thinking and group consensus must become as normal as eating. Eventually, people learn to discard their old mental anchors and boundaries — all the facts and certainties that built firm convictions. They become like boats adrift, always ready to shift with the changing winds and currents.”
