The Powell Memo

The Powell Memo ^PDF - This is a stunning and educational 7 page extract from the Analytical Activism manuscript.

The Powell Memo was the precipitating event for the swift rise and astounding success of neo conservatism in the United States, starting in the early 1970s. The memo presented a bold strategy for taking over the key portions of the system, without the other side knowing what was happening. Unless they have read the memo, they still don't.

After you have read the memo and the running commentary, perhaps you will agree on these points:

1. We have a formidable opponent.

2. Simple solutions are not going to work.

3. Changing just a few environmental organizations will not work. The movement as a whole must be transformed and unified, just as the corporate proxy movement was transformed and unified, if we are to have any rational hope of pushing as hard as we need to on the correct high leverage points.