Saul Alinsky and the BLM Movement

By David E Smith 5 min read
Chicago cops were ambushed by BLM & Antifa last week in Grant Park.<br>The left-wing mob attempted to destroy a statue of Christopher Columbus.

While Saul Alinsky can be connected directly to both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, I’m not aware that such a clear connection exists between the founders of the BLM movement and Alinsky, who died in 1972. But there is no doubt that they share his philosophy of cultural revolution.

In his insightful, 2009 mini-book, Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky ModelDavid Horowitz quoted an SDS radical who wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

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