Progressivism:David Axelrod
A Discover The Networks Profile
David Horowitz's DiscoverTheNetworks.org
Born in 1955, David Axelrod grew up in Manhattan and, from an early age, engaged
passionately in politics. At age ten, he canvassed for New York mayoral
candidate John Lindsay (Democrat) and, at age 13, sold campaign buttons and
bumper stickers promoting Robert Kennedy for President. Axelrod's mother was a
writer for PM, a left-wing New York newspaper, which was alleged to have ties to
the Communist Party. In 1977, Axelrod completed his B.A. in political studies at
the University of Chicago. That same year, he received an internship at the
Chicago Tribune. In 1982 he was promoted to become the Tribune’s youngest chief
political writer. Don Rose, founder of the pro-communist Hyde Park Voices and a
1960s member the Alliance to End Repression, which was a suspected Communist
Party front, has claimed that he and another prominent Chicago communist, David
Canter, mentored Axelrod and guided his early political development during this
time. “I...wrote a reference letter for him,” Rose stated, “that helped him win
an internship at the Tribune, which was the next step in his journalism career.”
In 1984, dissatisfied with his career and the “corporatization of journalism” in
general, Axelrod joined the Senate campaign of Illinois Representative Paul
Simon. Originally hired as Communications Director, Axelrod was promoted to
Co-Manager within the first two months. During the campaign, he worked alongside
Rahm Emanuel, who would go on to become President Barack Obama’s chief of staff
25 years later.
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A DtN Profile on Saul Alinsky DiscoverTheNetworks.org
Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a
Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of
infiltration -- coupled with a measure of confrontation -- that have been
central to revolutionary political movements in the United States in recent
decades. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts
it, became an avatar of the post-modern left. Though Alinsky is rightfully
understood to have been a leftist, his legacy is more methodological than
ideological. He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens
could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of
gaining public power. His motto was, “The most effective means are whatever will
achieve the desired results.” Alinsky studied criminology as a graduate student
at the University of Chicago, during which time he became friendly with Al
Capone and his mobsters. Ryan Lizza, senior editor of The New Republic, offers a
glimpse into Alinsky’s personality: “Charming and self-absorbed, Alinsky would
entertain friends with stories -- some true, many embellished -- from his mob
days for decades afterward. He was profane, outspoken, and narcissistic, always
the center of attention despite his tweedy, academic look and thick, horn-rimmed
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