Status Updates From Hyperpolitik

“Amnesty International, after all, is not the Communist Party anymore than a golf club is the NSDAP. NGOs run by professional staff are not fortresses of civil society but heads without bodies, recruiting donors rather than members and lacking both the ambition and prospect of uniting a cohesive base.”

“Policy encompasses the methods by which states organizes their societies, such as choosing winners and losers in industrial society. Politics pertains to campaigning, competition between parties, forging alliances and coalitions”

“[NGOs] were not financed through dues but turned to wealthy donors. Skocpol refers to such NGOs as “advocates without members” - lawyers speaking on behalf of defendants who, for the most part, would remain mute and passive… they made up the ghost armies of postpolitics.”.