Francis Piven
Cloward and Piven - Violence ok
It's okay to use violence if it's part of a strategy.
Francis Piven
It's okay to use violence if it's part of a strategy.
01/15/2011 in Cloward - Piven Strategy, Francis Fox Piven | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
By Vincent Gioia | Published 10/19/2008 The importance of this election to all Americans and the future of our country cannot be overstated. The United States has never had the possibility of a virtual Marxist in the oval office before.
The Democrat Party has been taken over by the extreme left wing to the extent that earlier Democrats like Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey would not recognize it.
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It is fair to ask how we have gotten to the point where a charismatic Marxist is within walking distance to the White House. The answer is that a perfect storm of socialism has been developed by shrewd people behind the scene, a leftist news media, and careful long-term planning. All major players are acolytes of communist Saul Alinsky who taught his students the ''Rules for Radicals'' to take over the country by working from within. Alinsky could never have dreamed a disciple would be in a battle for the most powerful job in the world, let along have a good chance of winning. Nor would I have believed so many Americans would fall for the socialist claptrap of Barack Obama.
Vincent Gioia
09/20/2009 in Cloward - Piven Strategy, Francis Fox Piven | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, 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. 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.
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 "Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands."
Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration.
They predicted as a result "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level."
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09/09/2009 in Cloward - Piven Strategy, Francis Fox Piven | Permalink
Frances Fox Piven
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She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962. In 2006-2007 she served as the President of the American Sociological Association. She was married to her long-time collaborator Richard Cloward until his death in 2001. Together with Cloward, she designed the "Cloward-Piven Strategy," outlined in an article written in the may 1966 issue of The Nation entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty."
09/09/2009 in Cloward - Piven Strategy, Francis Fox Piven | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)