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Of interest (to me and, perhaps, to this list) was<br>
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"Cohen’s world seems to be one event like this after another:
endless soirees for the cross-fertilization of influence between
elites and their vassals, under the pious rubric of “civil society.”
The received wisdom in advanced capitalist societies is that there
still exists an organic “civil society sector” in which institutions
form autonomously and come together to manifest the interests and
will of citizens. The fable has it that the boundaries of this
sector are respected by actors from government and the “private
sector,” leaving a safe space for NGOs and nonprofits to advocate
for things like human rights, free speech and accountable
government.<br>
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This sounds like a great idea. But if it was ever true, it has not
been for decades. Since at least the 1970s, authentic actors like
unions and churches have folded under a sustained assault by
free-market statism, transforming “civil society” into a buyer’s
market for political factions and corporate interests looking to
exert influence at arm’s length. The last forty years have seen a
huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose,
beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy."<br>
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Thx DeeDee<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-10-25 11:09 AM, DeeDee Halleck
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447">http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447</a>
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<div>a useful read.</div>
<div>xx</div>
<div>DeeDee<br clear="all">
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