Thursday, October 31, 2013

The NGO sector: The Trojan horse of capitalism

Click here to access article by "Crn Blok" - an anarchist group from Macedonia posted on libcom. (Note: The translated pamphlet is broken into translated segments following this first segment.)

Much has been written about the role of NGOs in stifling, managing, and even engineering dissent (think "color revolutions"), but this appears to me (I've only read the first two segments at this time) to be an excellent in-depth study of their operations. The first paragraph starts with this perceptive statement:
There is a good reason why we, anarchists, would pay some attention to the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) sector, principally because the general public considers this "third sector" as a tool for democratisation of society, and even worse, as an alternative to the struggle against centralized authority, oppression, poverty and all the other collective misfortunes of the people. To us, this is yet another of the great deceptions of capitalism that serve to keep the illusion of choice and freedom alive.