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28th December 2004, 15:05
How Nonprofit Careerism Derailed the "Revolution"
by Michael Donnelly, CounterPunch
Nonprofit Careerism
Back there in Eisenhower days, an educated, middle class American youth could look forward to a future laid out lockstep towards either a position in the "Private Sector" (read: corporate drone) or in the "Public Sector" (read: political hack).
Those who got too far out there protesting the War or Racism or any other outrage soon found themselves with a blot on the resume. Not to worry; soon corporate America set up the "third" leg of the stool. The entire domain of nonprofit institutions (arts, culture, environment, etc.) found and embraced a collective identity as the "Nonprofit Sector" sometime in the early 1970s. Ludicrously, their self-declared title has recently become "The Independent Sector."
Entire college programs have sprung up, such as Wayne State University's Nonprofit Sector Studies Program (NPSS). The NPSS mission sates, "The nation's fastest growing sector needs administrators, policy makers, program managers, and advocates who will guide them into the future"
People could have their little impact antiauthority flings as a college youth and still have a well-compensated career as one of those administrators, etc. And corporate America could continue its depredations and whitewash its impacts by sending out an army of increasingly ineffective nonprofit professionals.
Full text (including some dirt on the Green Party)...
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/137454/index.php
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by Michael Donnelly, CounterPunch
Nonprofit Careerism
Back there in Eisenhower days, an educated, middle class American youth could look forward to a future laid out lockstep towards either a position in the "Private Sector" (read: corporate drone) or in the "Public Sector" (read: political hack).
Those who got too far out there protesting the War or Racism or any other outrage soon found themselves with a blot on the resume. Not to worry; soon corporate America set up the "third" leg of the stool. The entire domain of nonprofit institutions (arts, culture, environment, etc.) found and embraced a collective identity as the "Nonprofit Sector" sometime in the early 1970s. Ludicrously, their self-declared title has recently become "The Independent Sector."
Entire college programs have sprung up, such as Wayne State University's Nonprofit Sector Studies Program (NPSS). The NPSS mission sates, "The nation's fastest growing sector needs administrators, policy makers, program managers, and advocates who will guide them into the future"
People could have their little impact antiauthority flings as a college youth and still have a well-compensated career as one of those administrators, etc. And corporate America could continue its depredations and whitewash its impacts by sending out an army of increasingly ineffective nonprofit professionals.
Full text (including some dirt on the Green Party)...
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/137454/index.php
:redstar2000:
The Redstar2000 Papers (http://www.redstar2000papers.fightcapitalism.net)
A site about communist ideas