Roelofs,J. Foundations and Public Policy. 2003
Roelofs, Joan. Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism.
Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. 269 pages.
Few American scholars dare admit that capitalism could not survive
without the support of the nonprofit sector. It helps to first get tenure,
and then approach the topic very cautiously. Joan Roelofs, a political
science professor at Keene State College in New Hampshire, has broken
through to the other side. While Karl Marx criticized the role of bourgeois
philanthropy only in passing, due to a lack of evidence, Roelofs starts
with the robber barons and continues through the twentieth century.
That adds up to a hundred years of heavy evidence.
Beginning with the cold war, American philanthropy branched into
foreign policy. The Ford Foundation (and to a lesser extent, Rockefeller
and Carnegie) worked very closely with the CIA. Ford funded many leftist
minority and special-interest groups during the 1960s, but it was all part
of the same grand scheme to promote pluralism as an antidote to class
consciousness. McGeorge Bundy, an architect of U.S. policy in Vietnam,
became president of Ford Foundation in 1966. In his words, his role was
"to make the world safe for capitalism." Now it is 2006, and Russia is
finally realizing that they've been raped by capitalists using philanthropy
as a cover, and are taking steps to stop it. They should re-read their
Marx. While they're at it, they might want to pick up this book as well.
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