Nu exista cadouri pe lumea asta, doar alte ambalaje ale Cailor Troieni

Atentie la rolul 'non-guvernamentalelor' in naucirea opozitiei la avansul sistemului! Nu exista cadouri pe lumea asta, doar alte ambalaje ale Cailor Troieni.

Valer Simion Cosma

January 27 at 4:28pm

”In India, for instance, the funded NGO boom began in the late 1980s and 1990s. It coincided with the opening of India’s markets to neoliberalism (see: THEORY: Neoliberalism). At the time, the Indian state, in keeping with the requirements of structural adjustment, was withdrawing funding from rural development, agriculture, energy, transport, and public health. As the state abdicated its traditional role, NGOs moved in to work in these very areas. The difference, of course, is that the funds available to them are a minuscule fraction of the actual cut in public spending. Most large well-funded NGOs are financed and patronized by aid and development agencies, which are in turn funded by Western governments, the World Bank, the UN, and some multinational corporations. Though they may not be the very same agencies, they are certainly part of the same loose, political formation that oversees the neoliberal project and demands the slash in government spending in the first place.
NGOs give the impression that they are filling the vacuum created by a retreating state. And they are, but in a materially inconsequential way. Their real contribution is that they defuse political anger and dole out as aid or benevolence what people ought to have by right. They alter the public psyche. They turn people into dependent victims and blunt the edges of political resistance. NGOs form a sort of buffer between the sarkar and public. Between Empire and its subjects. They have become the arbitrators, the interpreters, the facilitators of the discourse. They play out the role of the “reasonable man” in an unfair, unreasonable war.
Apolitical (and therefore, actually, extremely political) distress reports from poor countries and war zones eventually make the (dark) people of those (dark) countries seem like pathological victims. Another malnourished Indian, another starving Ethiopian, another Afghan refugee camp, another maimed Sudanese . . . in need of the white man’s help (see: THEORY: Poverty). They unwittingly reinforce racist stereotypes and reaffirm the achievements, the comforts, and the compassion (the tough love) of Western civilization, minus the guilt of the history of genocide, colonialism, and slavery. They’re the secular missionaries of the modern world.

Eventually — on a smaller scale, but more insidiously — the capital available to NGOs plays the same role in alternative politics as the speculative capital that flows in and out of the economies of poor countries. It begins to dictate the agenda.”

Beautiful Rising: The NGO-ization of resistance

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

beautifulrising.org

Comments

Dana Fantu Sistemul a pus mana si pe segmentul non-guvernamental.
In Romania (nu stiu cum e prin alte parti) inclusiv prin finantarea organizatiilor de la buget, sau prin cedarea unei parti din impozit catre acestea, printre alte parghii de control.
Ne mai ramane o singura cale.

 

 

Prospectiv A-z .
...Lactee? ;-)

 

 

Dana Fantu Fizic (financiar) si locurile in navete sunt tot pentru premianti.
Restul ramanem cu spiritualul :)

 

 

Prospectiv A-z .
...ar mai fi si calea laptelui batut.

 

 

Dana Fantu Cam asta ar fi.