솔 앨린스키

소개

솔 데이비드 앨린스키(영어: Saul David Alinsky, 1909년 1월 30일 ~ 1972년 6월 12일)은 미국의 공동체 활동가이자 정치 이론가이다. 앨린스키는 현대적인 지역사회 조직화(community organizing)의 창시자로 알려져 있다. 앨린스키의 대표 저작은 '급진주의자를 위한 규칙'(Rules for Radicals)이다.

Saul David Alinsky was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords, politicians, bankers and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety. Responding to the impatience of a New Left generation of activists in the 1960s, Alinsky – in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971) – defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice.