Saul Alinsky

Perhaps the greatest misreading of Saul Alinsky's work stems from "Rules for Radicals." The book was written in an attempt to codify Alinsky's community organizing model for future organizers of grassroots movements to learn from.

As Von Hoffman stated in his article, the term "radical," in Alinsky's world, meant a person who was not satisfied with piecemeal approaches to social change - someone who would take the fight TO the powerful instead of waiting to react to the world around them..

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71865.html