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As much as I’ve harped on it and written about it, Ive 1,000 percent understated the undermining influence of the NGO complex on mass politics. The explosion of social philanthropy from the 70s on has fundamentally changed the left to a degree i think ppl still don’t appreciate
People alternately reach back to models from the teens, the 30s, the 60s, but not contending with the fact that the billions of dollars soaking movement politics are specifically deployed to make those models impossible.
Money in movements is like gravity, and the closer you get to its source the more it warps and distorts you. Around every corner and on every issue even the language and words we use come from this world, everything is inverted. It can be despairing.
We can’t do what was done in the 30s, or 60s, because what was done in the 70s-90s makes that impossible. We have a situation where there are people paid to manage a movement, and when spontaneous self organization does happen, the money hunts it down and puts it on the payroll
It’d comedy seeing how this complex instructs us—a complex that has a pristine, unbroken 50 year record of failure. The left is further behind today than it was in 1970. 50 years, billions of dollars, thousands of academic sinecures later, and they insist on a spot on the panel.
If it seems like maybe now I’m overstating the case, maybe we need a few years or a decade of hyperbole, something to draw some lines, to get some distance and keep the putrid stink of half a century of ceaseless losing off of us as we face global catastrophe.
Organize these workers! The exploitation of these workers is extremely common and they can be a bulwark for solidarity https://twitter.com/tweetingwithbr3/status/1334685498716139525
