Pacific Northwest Research Center. Rockwell International: Where Business Gets Down to the Science of War. Eugene OR: PNRC, 1975. Written by Paul Fitzgerald, John Markoff, Roger Walke, and John Woodmansee, with a foreword by G. William Domhoff. 69 pages.

PNRC was a collective of researchers that thrived for a time in the 1970s when "power structure research" meant identifying and tracking the influence of corporate and government elites. One of PNRC's contributions was this booklet on Rockwell International's cozy relations with Washington and Pentagon bigwigs. By looking at Rockwell and its B-1 bomber contract in particular, this booklet presents an amazing case study of how the military- industrial complex works. (Nothing has changed since 1975. In 1991 I was employed by Grumman, which along with Rockwell and others was a contractor for NASA's space station. This latest tax-dollar boondoggle caused me to resign in disgust after only three months of very fat paychecks.)

By the late 1970s the tendency of "the personal as political" replaced "power structure research" on the U.S. left, and progressive funding sources were now controlled by self-interested feminists and multiculturalists. They succeeded in forcing one foot into the power structure by legislating and lobbying for preferential treatment. But this neither exposed nor challenged the way the system works, and by now it's increasingly clear that they were simply bought off. -- D.Brandt
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