Claire G’s Reviews > The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex > Status Update

"Although the stated intention of the officers, trustees, and scientists of the Rockefeller Foundation was to solve the seemingly intractable problem of global hunger, investigative journalist Mark Dowie presents a parallel story of elites that were just as motivated to curb population growth in the Global South and stave off radical communist insurgency." Page 71

"Lately funders have been very excited by the possibility of groups aligning with unlikely allies. But to create a powerful front, a front with the capacity to change the landscape, it seems that connecting with likely allies would be a better use of time and trouble."

"[...] despite the US constitutional admonition that the government should 'promote the general welfare' [...] Antistate state actors come from both camps [...] Lapsed New Deal Democrat Patrick Moynihan called it 'benign neglect,' while Reagan heir George H.W. Bush called it 'a thousand points of light.'"

"There are no guarantees, or arrogant expectations, of an ultimate state of liberation awaiting on the other side of the politically immediate struggle against the settler colony."
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