Alternatives to Corporate Rule

There is an Alternative to Corporate Rule, by Mark Engler. What he describes may not be philanthropy, but it is certainly civil society.

In truth, a lack of viable ideas is hardly the problem for those who reject both corporate and imperial models of globalization. Whether they are part of boisterous national uprisings or quiet, persistent community efforts to fuel a truly democratic globalization -- a globalization from below -- members of grassroots networks are now engaged in a debate about the proper balance of vision, program, political strategy, and tactics needed to move forward.

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