"First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (today Piven is an honorary chair for the Democratic Socialists of America), the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse."The ultimate goal of Cloward-Piven is a new federal program for direct income redistribution. The idea is that the existing, and often local, welfare programs do not go far enough. They do not provide nearly enough. So the only thing to do is to draw more and more people into massive, unsustainable entitlement programs, so as to collapse the whole system... and then, in a crisis, blame free-market capitalism... and swoop in with a national, federally established, minimal income requirement for all... which, no doubt will carry limits, as well.
Oh, and a happy little useful byproduct while they implement their strategy... Political power...
"... public resources have always been the fuel for low-income urban political organization. If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors. At least, they have always done so in the past." - Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, The Weight of the Poor, A Strategy to End Poverty
I have included the text of the Cloward-Piven Strategy in my sidebar under Who Would Destroy America. Also in my sidebar is the growing national debt counter. The Cloward-Piven Strategy depends on you being surprised. Don't be.
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