What is a "Community Organizer?"

"Community Organizer" has a particular meaning. It was created by Saul Alinsky, the Chicago Communist (who was a "community organizer"), in his book, "Rules for Radicals." It was Alinsky's contention that if someone could organize a community by finding what they had in common that was missing in their lives, such as health care, adequate housing, or some other grievance, you could unite them in a cause. The pretense would be that the community would be organized for the purpose of fixing the grievance, the real purpose would be to radicalize the community against the government and toward socialism, or communism. --Gary Aminoff