WHAT IS THE “NON-PROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX”?
The non-profit industrial complex (or the NPIC) is a system of relationships between:
• the State (or local and federal governments)
• the owning classes
• foundations
• and non-profit/NGO social service & social justice organizations
This results in the surveillance, control, derailment, and everyday management of political movements.
The state uses non-profits to: • Monitor and control social justice movements; • Divert public monies into private hands through foundations; • Manage and control dissent in order to make the world safe for capitalism; • Redirect activist energies into career-based modes of organizing instead of mass-based organizing capable of actually transforming society; • Allow corporations to mask their exploitative and colonial work practices through “philanthropic” work; • Encourage social movements to model themselves after capitalist structures rather than to challenge them