First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.


本書最早於 1971 年出版，作者索爾‧阿林斯基在書中為年輕的叛逆者，針對如何實現有建設性的社會改革，並了解「務實的叛逆者和虛飾的叛逆者有何不同」，提供充滿熱情的諮詢建議。阿林斯基於激進政治發展的背景下撰寫本書，他是探究美國該政治發展方向的先驅之一，而本書也完美的展現了他的個人風格。就像在他之前的 Thomas Paine 一樣，阿林斯基不論在身體力行或寫作上不僅表達對政治強烈的參與，同時也堅守理性的政治對話與美國的民主傳統。