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Firm Foundation, 2006.
Firm Foundation, 2006.

"The Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations are, in the final analysis, class institutions that attempt to create a world order supportive of the interests of the class they represent...The foundations are clearly part of the American ruling class. Their vast wealth enables them to articulate programs, set certain agendas, and shape the world order in a manner consonant with the interests of the few associated with them. Much of their work is carried out by carefully chosen and subsidized intellectuals, who elaborate ideologies supportive of the existing social, economic, and political order, in which the foundations play key, but generally unrecognized roles."
-Edward H. Berman, The Influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations on American Foreign Policy: Ideology and Philanthropy, 1984, page 162 and 176.



“The power of the individual large foundation is enormous. It can exercise various forms of patronage which carry with them elements of thought control. It can exert immense influence on educational institutions, upon the educational processes and upon educators. It can materially predetermine the development of social and political concepts and courses of action through the process of granting and withholding foundation awards upon a selective basis and by designing and promulgating projects which propel researchers in selected directions. It can play a powerful part in the determination of academic opinion and through this thought leadership, materially influence public opinion….It has ramifications in almost every phase of research and education, highly undesirable, whether the net result of its operations is benign or not….The aggregate thought control power of this foundation and foundation-supported bureaucracy can hardly be exaggerated. A system has thus arisen….which gives enormous power to a relatively small group of individuals….It is a system which is antithetical to American principles.”(page 17)
-Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and comparable organizations-House Resolution 217, 83rd Congress, 1st Session. Filed with the House of Representatives 83rd Congress, 2nd Session, as Union Calendar N. 926 Report N. 2681.



"Here we wish simply to emphasize that in our generation efforts are being made to arrange and control human relationships more consciously, more deliberately, and, it is to be hoped, more responsibly than during the last century. An interdependent world is being forced to an awareness of the limitations of individual freedom and personal choice."
-Pendleton Herring, Social Science Research Council, Reece Committee Report, p.126



"What brought the social scientists and the foundations together was the concept of 'social control.' For sociologists, this concept had become the central theoretical thrust behind their attempts to investigate social problems. Park and Burgess asserted in their most influential text, Introduction to the Science of Sociology (1921), that 'all social problems turn out to be problems of social control.'...The theoretical and the practical merged as these social scientists and foundation officials sought to use social scientific research to solve social problems and thereby increase the degree to which society was socially controlled. Rather than an end, social control was regarded as a means of enhancing the inevitable progress toward the ideal of democracy."
-Donald Fisher, Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council, 1993, page 58.



 


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