This book tells the fascinating story of the development and implementation of the new Progressive Left Movement over the last quarter century. Born out of Liberalism's crushing defeats at the hands of conservative strategists of the Reagan/Bush era, this new movement has cleverly reverse engineered the conservative's institutional networking strategy to plan and finance their own movement. Whereas conservative strategists constructed an elaborate network of foundations, think tanks, and other corporately funded institutions to advance their agenda, the Progressive Left has used an anti-corporate strategy whose purpose was two-fold: 1. To undermine corporate support for conservative's Power Elite worldview and claim to power. 2. To establish a civic-minded, anti-corporate image for themselves and thereby force corporate policy toward their own "socially responsible" agenda. Biz-War extends the argument of Manheim's 2000 book, The Death of A Thousand Cuts, by showing how anti-corporate campaigns have evolved from economically-oriented labor organizations to ideologically-oriented political groups.
It details how the institutional networking lessons crafted by organized labor are being employed with increasing effect by the political left. The book will be of interest to students of contemporary American politics, strategic communication, political movements, and business management. Likewise, it will help corporate executives and financial analysts comprehend the proxy wars and other attacks against their companies.