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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Very interesting. I bought the book.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Assange has some pretty harsh comments about the idea of an autonomous civil society:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">“</span></font><font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org">ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org</a> [<a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org">mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces@lists.ncuc.org</a>]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>DeeDee Halleck<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 25, 2014 11:10 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org">
ncuc-discuss@lists.ncuc.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [NCUC-DISCUSS] Maintaining Systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">a useful read.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">xx<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">DeeDee<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org" target="_blank">http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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