In a totalitarian state, there is no such thing as an “NGO”… impossible by definition
August 14, 2018 § Leave a comment
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002663/why-chinese-ngos-are-still-struggling-to-build-capacity
“This tension, in turn, carries significant implications for Chinese civil society, particularly the country’s social organizations — institutions roughly equivalent to NGOs, but that nonetheless experience a certain amount of state oversight and guidance.”
remove ‘state’, insert ‘party’…
The party will never allow capacity to be built because ‘the totality’ is to serve the ‘party’ which has a monopoly on ‘truth’ and ‘power’…
“However, social organizations continue to suffer from a lack of capacity building — that is, the ability to obtain and strengthen the skills, knowledge, and other resources needed to do their jobs properly and attain a certain autonomy from the state via sustainable self-management, governance, and finance. Capacity building usually requires money, but money alone does not make social organizations capable of sustained development.”
Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988) 
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