How Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Is Fueling Inequality and Helping to Destroy the Country
Prashanth Kamalakanthan, AlterNet: The 'charitable-industrial complex,' where the wealthy set up philanthropic efforts with little or no knowledge of the structural issues within this country, continues the cycle of inequality under the guise of charity.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18279-how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country
Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy
Joanne Barkan, Dissent: Philanthropy is the exercise of wealth-derived power in the public sphere with minimal democratic controls and civic obligations. Without countervailing forces, wealth in capitalist societies already translates into political power; big philanthropy reinforces this tendency.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19552-plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/18279-how-billionaire-philanthropy-is-fueling-inequality-and-helping-to-destroy-the-country
Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy
Joanne Barkan, Dissent: Philanthropy is the exercise of wealth-derived power in the public sphere with minimal democratic controls and civic obligations. Without countervailing forces, wealth in capitalist societies already translates into political power; big philanthropy reinforces this tendency.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19552-plutocrats-at-work-how-big-philanthropy-undermines-democracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=plutocrat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=political+power
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=capitalis
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=industrial+complex
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=philanthrop
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=wealth
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