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What the heck is a Cloward and Piven and what does it have to do with the Far Left? Richard Cloward and his batshit crazy wife, Frances Piven were sociologists and Democrat Socialists that developed a political strategy in 1966, creatively referred to as the “Cloward and Piven Strategy”. In short, the Cloward and Piven Strategy calls for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty”. Does this sound a bit familiar in 2020?
Ironically, just one year earlier, Paul Harvey, a conservative broadcaster, aired some comments, a concept and now a reality really, titled “If I were the Devil”. If you’ve never listened to this before, spend the 3 minutes and listen to it. Paul Harvey was many years ahead of his time, but I digress.
Now, back to these two idiots Cloward and Piven. Sadly, Cloward and Piven were visionaries and they knew exactly what it would take to turn America inside out. Thank God they’re both dead but their legacy and “Strategy” is alive and well, they’d be so very proud.
I know, I know, Socialism, Communism/Marxism are bad enough, what could Cloward and Piven possibly add to the Far Left agenda? Both Socialism and Communism/Marxism are founded on (10) “planks”, basically a high level construct on how to achieve Socialism and Communism/Marxism. Think of Socialism and Communism/Marxism as the framework and the Cloward and Piven Strategy as well as Saul Alinsky‘s Rules for Radicals as the mechanisms to make Socialism and Communism/Marxism a reality. Unfortunately, the media sources “normal people” rely on (Fox News, OAN, Newsmax TV, etc.) never discuss the Cloward and Piven Strategy. Perhaps they are worried it would further confuse people or perhaps it’s just easiest to refer to Socialism and Communism/Marxism, I’m not really sure. However, from where I sit, I think it’s important for people to understand the different frameworks and mechanisms currently being used to destroy America.
The article below does a great job detailing what the Cloward and Piven Strategy is all about. It’s a little long, but if you’re not familiar and are interested in understanding more about the Far Left and connecting the proverbial dots, then it will be time well spent.
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven — both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is an honorary chair — 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.
Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles — which erupted after police used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving — Cloward and Piven published an article titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called “crisis strategy” or “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.
In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them,” Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system. The authors also asserted that: (a) the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the country; (b) poor people would rise in revolt; and (c) only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands (sound familiar?).
The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inherent inadequacy of the welfare state. In this regard, Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.
Cloward and Piven noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare — about 8 million at that time — probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. Thus the authors proposed a “massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls,” calculating that the system would be bankrupted if even a fraction of potential welfare recipients were to demand their entitlements. The result, predicted Cloward and Piven, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level.”
The Cloward-Piven article called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.” Then, the authors predicted, the following would happen:
Politicians, intimidated by threats of black violence, would appeal to the federal government for help.Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all — working and non-working people alike.Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it.With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.The Cloward-Piven Strategy was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse initiatives — mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse in an effort to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. Cloward and Piven calculated that the flood of demands which they were recommending would break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown — providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory.
Cloward and Piven recruited a militant black organizer named George Wiley to lead their new movement. The three met in January 1966, at the so-called “Poor People’s War Council on Poverty,” a radical organizers’ meeting in Syracuse, New York. Wiley listened to the Cloward-Piven plan with interest. That same month, he launched his own activist group, the Washington, D.C.-based Poverty Rights…
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