Non-Profits Destroy Social Movements

When the government came up with this whole 501C3 scam, they smartly figured out how to fuck up social movements my burning out awesome people by focusing their energy on running a business rather than revolt. Radicals should be opening squats, growing food, and burning down banks rather than filing foundation reports, massaging the fucked-up egos of spoiled board members, and licking ruling class ass.

Recently, I convinced myself to think you could change a fucked up system from the inside out. This is what doctrinaire anarchists refer to as "reformist" thinking. Stupidly, I've wasted years trying to "reform" so-called progressive organizations from oxymoronic, hierarchical tendencies in "democratic" organizations. You can't make a good omelet out of a bad egg. Non-profits can't be fixed. You can use their resources, pay the bills, and even do amazing projects within them, but when it comes to advancing progressive social change, real change, radical systemic change, you can't do that under any I.R.S. structure. Nope. You gotta take the hard road and do it yourself, with community, without a pay check, just like people have done it for centuries. Revolution is not a job.

Think about it. If a bunch of folks jobs feeding people depend on other folks starving, do you really think the comfortably employed will work to end hunger? They might lessen it, but they need people to go hungry to get a check.

I can't tell you how many people in the progressive non-profit sector feared a Democrat landslide in this last election because they were being bankrolled by anti-Bush sentiment. It felt like the non-profit "activists" needed a fascist president to justify our income fighting fascism.

It's sick.

The revolutionary flames that should be burning through this country are being snuffed out en masses by 501 C3s, professional "activists," greedy non-profit executives, and lackluster boards filled with ruling class creeps justifying their creepiness by "giving back."

I'd love to see a mass boycott of this whole system so we could have some real alternative economies and Democratic structures in the USA.

If folks need day jobs, fine, go work for Greenpeace, but in the evening, consider revolt.