Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer

Introduction

Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer is a very good example of structured foundation of effective academic theory understanding of organizing balance by suggestive feeling of being drawn into powerful stories written to challenge and educate the reader. This book is a complete training guide for radical and progressive activities. In this book the author has argued that activists should grab on failing of American imperialism and capitalism so that political program to carry movement can be build e (Horwitt, 2010, 115). And while many political victories in 2011 pre-emptive legislation (for example, the abolition of the electoral law of collective agreements at the Ohio Senate Bill 5), activists are working to mobilize the masses to the systemic transformation.

For a successful movement organization, every meeting, every march, every campaign, every tactic is part of a campaign against a powerful adversary. To carry a campaign to victory, any senior organization must have a base that can force some institution to change. The great transformative organizers stood up to mighty system of oppression and exploitation less mass movement for liberation. Transformative organizers are driven by an ideology and ethical vision of radical change a daily practice of working with most exploited oppressed punishment of system of the society. In this book the author has mentioned job description of a successful organizer which is also called 12 roles that he has referred it as component parts of job of a transformative organizer. The qualities presented by Mann in the book are what make the difference between failure and success in the each particular job practice. Each quality has represented a qualitative and integrated way of acting, being and looking at life. We can see that these qualities are clustered and iterate with each other. Most successful, organizer must be excellent in many of these qualities and atlatl pretty good in virtually all of them (Chambers, 2011, 221). The 16 qualities of a successful organizer are consistent with the qualities of a successful person and successful life (one filled with meaning and concern for other beside ourselves.

An organizer is a member of the organization. The first step in journey to change society is to join an organization. People can join any group to help society. People seeking their first organization always go through a trial and error period until they find the best match between their own politics and politics of group to which they want to make long term commitment. The most developed and dedicated organizer joins a particular organization because he agrees and understands with its strategy, main tactics, and demands and he believes that the organization can make history. A successful organizer studies the field and assesses the difference between groups than make informed decisions and commitment based on the deepest political unity. The foundation of unity is important because when loyalty is tested an organizer must stand on firm ground.

In addition there are many ways of assessing a successful ...