Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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 very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
A good tactic is one your people enjoy.
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.
Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.
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