Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite : The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation

ISBN-13: 9780805850680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 216 str.

Prof Jarol B. Manheim

Opis

This book tells the fascinating story of the development and implementation of the new Progressive Left Movement over the last quarter century. Born out of Liberalism's crushing defeats at the hands of conservative strategists of the Reagan/Bush era, this new movement has cleverly reverse engineered the conservative's institutional networking strategy to plan and finance their own movement. Whereas conservative strategists constructed an elaborate network of foundations, think tanks, and other corporately funded institutions to advance their agenda, the Progressive Left has used an anti-corporate strategy whose purpose was two-fold: 1. To undermine corporate support for conservative's Power Elite worldview and claim to power. 2. To establish a civic-minded, anti-corporate image for themselves and thereby force corporate policy toward their own socially responsible agenda. Biz-War extends the argument of Manheim's 2000 book, The Death of A Thousand Cuts, by showing how anti-corporate campaigns have evolved from economically-oriented labor organizations to ideologically-oriented political groups. It details how the institutional networking lessons crafted by organized labor are bei

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Epiphany. Dollar$ to Doughnuts: Financing Social Change. The Foundations of Progressivism. Archimedes' Lever...and Thor's Hammer. Them! Capital Punishment. Left, With the Right's Stuff. Us! From Networks to Netwar. Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite. Appendix: Annotated Listing of 100 Selected Progressive-Left Organizations.

O autorze

Jarol B. Manheim