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Once there was a wolf who decided to change his nature by changing his appearance in order to kill
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So the wolf put on a sheepskin in order to blend himself into the flock and follow them into the pasture
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Time passed the sheep graze peacefully and the shepherd was fooled by the wolf's disguise
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The beast struck, at first carefully killing only a few
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Then increasingly the wolf killed more and more
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The fields filled with blood; the sheep disappeared one by one
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Suddenly the shepherd became suspicious and awaken to the wolf’s evil plan
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The shepherd then captured the wolf, killed it and hung it on a tree
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Men that passed by noticed the wolf in sheep's clothing hanging there and I asked the shepherd why he had done this
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The shepherd answered, the skin is that of a sheep, but its actions were those of a wolf
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Saul Alinsky was a twentieth century American radical, today is best known as the father of community organizing
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Firing Line with William E. Buckley Jr
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"Mr. Saul Alinsky who was born in Chicago 1909 has become sort of the pet revolutionary of the church people of America"
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"His organization is called the Industrial Areas Foundation and for a fee, a very modest fee,"
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"Mr. Alinsky will come to your town as he has to 40 others to organize the poor"
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"And that may mean an end to all the traffic, may mean sit ins on City Hall, the cultivation of racial animosities"
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"But Mr. Alinsky claims that's the way to get the toilet fixed in the slum buildings and to bring pride and a sense of dignity to the poor people"
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"Something like the sense of dignity which presumably Sitting Bull and his people felt after a massacre"
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"Mr. Alinsky doesn’t mind criticism at all, if fact, what he minds is when he isn't criticized"
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"He desires the poor to rise up and reject middle-class values"
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Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago on January 30th, 1909
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His Orthodox Jewish parents raised him a Jew
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Saul Alinsky's relationship with his father Benjamin was complicated
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"I don't think I ever hated the old man; I never really knew him and what little I did know didn't interested me"
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As distant as he was from his father Benjamin, Saul was emotionally tied to his overpowering mother Sarah
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Though Saul proclaimed he had grown up poor, this wasn't true, since his father was a successful upper-middle-class tailor
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Thus in 1926 after becoming a self-proclaimed agnostic, Saul entered the prestigious and progressivist University of Chicago
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Since the social sciences were born from the philosophers of the French revolution's revolt against religion,
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It's not surprising that Alinsky decided to study sociology
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A science originating from the fact that life was no longer determined by the supernatural but by natural environmental causes
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Alinsky's first two years at university were a struggle, but in his junior year he enrolled in a class that would change everything
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The course was social pathology, the professor E.W. Burgess
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Burgess and his college Robert Ezra Park were focused in reforming American cities
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They believed that diseases of crime and poverty, of social disorganization to have an external or ecological cause
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Chicago sociology was all about field study and the processes of social control and engineering
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It had a Darwinian base secularist evolutionary view of social change, pragmatism and progress
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Marriage and family were devalued, and self-identity was achieved by imagining how we look from another person's perspective
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This collectivist mental image is called the Looking-Glass self and is socially constructed in Marxist terms
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Father Mitch Pacwa is an American Jesuit priest, public speaker and television host of EWTN live
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"This becomes highly problematic, when you take a look at somebody like Saul Alinsky"
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"One of the philosophers I really connected with was up Maurice Merleau-Ponty who did the book called Phenomenology of Perception"
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"Wonderful book. And in that, he brings out that if you have as your intention an abstract goodness"
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"Then you will have an abstraction of the objects of your attention, you'll treat them as abstractions"
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"Because you're seeking abstract goals, and so you see a classic example is marxism"
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"The exercise of solidarity within each society is valid when its members recognize one another as persons"
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"Treat the pawns not as persons but as symbols representing interests or ideas which she believes inimicable to the welfare of the people"
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After graduation, Alinsky won a graduate fellowship in criminology
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He pursued a fieldwork study of street gangs and organized crime, in particular the criminal empire of the ruthless mob boss Al Capone
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Alinsky met and befriended Frank Nitti. He was the successor of the crime family after Capone went to prison
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Alinsky would say, "Nitty took me under his wing, I called him the professor and I became his student"