Opinions are like something, I've heard, your welcome to have your own about Alinsky. We would not be talking about him if he did not succeed in what he set out to do: empower the powerless. Tough break for you right wingers. If you actually read him, you'd find out he was more about process than philosophy. No one really cared where he stood politically, what they really liked about him was his methodology for getting things done, like changing this country into a place we could all live in, instead of it being an exclusive club for the white middle class, by educating the powerless about how the process works. No one has practiced Alinsky better than you guys.