What is the "Non-Profit Industrial Complex?" The non-profit industrial complex (or the NPIC) is a system of relationships between: • the State (or local and federal governments) • the owning classes • foundations • and non-profit/NGO social service & social justice organizations that results in the surveillance, control, derailment, and everyday management of political movements. The state uses non-profits to: • Monitor and control social justice movements; • Divert public monies into private hands through foundations; • Manage and control dissent in order to make the world safe for capitalism; • Redirect activist energies into career-based modes of organizing instead of mass-based organizing capable of actually transforming society; • Allow corporations to mask their exploitative and colonial work practices through "philanthropic" work; Encourage social movements to model themselves after capitalist structures rather than to challenge them
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:29:04 +0000
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