Myth-busting time.
There is more money from centrist, liberal and left foundations given out each year than from conservative and neo-conservative foundations. The "left" foundations, however, refuse generally to fund research, books, conferences, academic posts, and strategic planning, which the right funds in a coordinated manner, since they seem to have read Gramsci.
While right-wing foundations help the Christian Right institutions surivive hard times, the vast majority of the funding for politically-active Christian right organizations is raised internally through direct mail and electronic media appeals.
-Chip Berlet
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Adam Pressler
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:11 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: The Democratic Party & the Illusion of Splits in
> the Ruling
> Class, was Re: Cockburn: The Coup
>
>
>
> --- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Vikash Yadav wrote:
> >
> > > Why haven't the Democrats gone on the offensive?
> > I think the left should
> > > adopt much more vicious tactics.
> >
> > There is no *organized* left in the United States,
> > so it makes no
> > sense to speak of "The Left" doing or not doing
> > anything.
>
> There is no organized left, because we have been
> unwilling or unable to cultivate bizarre millionaires
> to fund our activities. We need a few R.M.Scaifes
> before we will see an equivalent of the American
> Family Council, Christian Coalition, or other such
> group.
>
> Any ideas on how to bring millionaires into a
> decidedly anti-wealth left? Not me either. Could it
> be that we would have to develop a rhetoric of
> populism as opposed to class struggle? Any takers?
> Or is populism not truly Left?
>
>
>
> =====
> Adam Pressler
>
> Dubya is that rarest of all gifts to an opposition,
> a genuine horse's ass, the Louis XVI of postmodernism.
> - Dennis R. Redmond
>
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