• • • Alinsky: Not an activist to emulate 
Craig Westover, Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) Altruism  |Atlas Shrugged  |Egoism  |Inaccurate  | Characterizing [Saul] Alinsky as “apolitical” because he did not identify with any specific ideology misses an insight brought to the fore by author/philosopher Ayn Rand: No social system can survive without a moral base. Although Rand’s notion of a “virtue of selfishness” antagonizes many people, the essence of her work was developing a logically consistent moral code based on the observation that all people act out of self-interest, which is also a premise of Alinsky’s philosophy.   Published: 2012-02-07