Mansur writes in the Edmonton Sun:
In Rules For Radicals, Alinsky described the means and ends of his politics as did Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto. Alinsky wrote, “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) 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.”
This is the Trojan horse principle of destroying the enemy — capitalism and democracy — from the inside. And democracy, as the French political philosopher Jean-Francois Revel observed from lived experience, is vulnerable to subversion because of “its eagerness to believe in its own guilt” and “devising arguments to prove the justice of its adversary’s case and to lengthen the already overwhelming list of its own inadequacies.”
