Taking on the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era Hardcover - 2008

by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga

As founder of one of the mostinfluential political blogs, DailyKos,Markos Moulitsas Zúniga establishesthe fundamental laws that governtoday's new era of digital activism.

The Sixties are over and the rules of power havebeen transformed. In order to change the world oneneeds to know how to manipulate the media, notjust march in the streets. Markos Moulitsas Zúniga,otherwise known as 'Kos,' is today's symbol ofdigital activism, giving a voice to everyday people.In Taking on the System, Kos has taken a cue from hisrevolutionary predecessor's doctrine, Saul Alinksy'sAlinsky's Rules for Radicals, and places this epichand-book in today's digital era, empowering everyAmerican to make a difference in the 21st century.

As founder of the largest political blog in the nation,Kos knows how it's done, because he's done it withtremendous success. In Taking on the System, he sharespractical guidelines on how grassroots movementscan thrive in the age of global information, whilereferencing historical and present examples of thetragedy caused without those actions.

The walls between the people and the power theso-called rabble and the so-called elite are beingtorn down by technology, and a new army of amateursare storming the barriers to effect political, cultural,and environmental transformation. Readers will cometo understand how they too can change the world.