"The Cloward - Piven Strategy"

"Using the poor to tear down capitalism"

By Robert Chandler | Wednesday, October 15, 2008
New York Times

The 2008 financial crisis has all of the earmarks of a Cloward-Piven strategy assault
against the capitalist system.
Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
recently explained that "community organizers"
(1) "intimidate banks into making high risk loans to customers with poor credit,"
(2) "occupy private offices, chant inside bank lobbies,
and confront executives at their homes," and, through these thuggish tactics,
(3) compel "financial institutions to direct hundreds of millions dollars
in mortgages to low-credit customers."
"In other words," Mr. Kurtz explained during a presentation
at the Hudson Institute's Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal,
"community organizers help to undermine America's economy
by pushing the banking system into a sink-hole of bad loans."

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