I spent a good amount of time arguing in the comments section of the National Catholic Register that the smearing of Alinsky is a pure absurdity and stupidity of the highest order. Alinsky was a friend of Jacques Maritain and greatly apprectated by him. Alinsky was the Lech Walesa of capitalist/materialist America. He was neither a communist nor a socialist. He might not have been a saint, but he was no devil either. He embodied much of the social doctrine of the Church.