Posted on 12/30/2010 10:01:19 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion
Writing in The Nation magazine on May 2, 1966, sociologists Richard Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven published what was to become in later years one of the most famous and influential of leftist articles. Titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty,” the two socialist intellectuals developed a new so-called “crisis strategy” — that of trying to use the existing welfare system to create chaos that would weaken the corporate capitalist state and eventually foment revolution. “Discover the Networks” has a good summary of their thesis...
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Writing in the current issue, Piven presents a clarion call for a new mass movement, one that the magazine publishes as an editorial statement representing its editors. (It is currently under the magazine’s firewall.) She begins by noting that nothing is taking place to deal with ending what she claims is an unemployment rate of 15 million people. To regain the 5 percent rate of 2007, she estimates there would have to be 300,000 jobs created each month for several years, something that is next to impossible.
Thus Piven asks a question: “So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations, sit-ins and unruly mobs?” In other words, the kind of action her protégé George Wiley fomented in the 70s with the NWRO. She admonishes the Left not to wait for “the end of the American empire and even the end of neoliberal capitalism,” but to up the ante at present to pressure for “big new [government] initiatives in infrastructure and green energy” that could “ward off the darkness.” Her fear is that the new Congress, instead of moving in the direction she and the Left favors, will concentrate on “deficit reduction by means of tax cuts and spending cuts.” As for President Obama, she sees him as a new version of Herbert Hoover, who foolishly meets with corporate executives and seeks to placate them.
This is an excerpt, you can read the rest at the link below:
http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2010/12/30/cloward-piven-strategy-for-today/?singlepage=true
At some point American’s may have to have a civil war with these people to keep them from confiscating every tidbit of freedom we posses.
Destroy neoliberal Capitalism and replace it with Grand Government (read Marxism) to save us from the Darkness?
Yes - indeed this is sedition and they are on the march for your freedom.
The troublemakers are eliminated once their job as useful idiots has been completed.
Yeah, that poverty sure got eliminated didn’t it?
Such “intellectuals”
Just another ugly leftist bitch. I think that’s why they’re so bitter and nasty, can’t deal with nature’s hand.
These two don’t want to end poverty. They want to make mass poverty.
The angry crowds and riots are scheduled to begin just before the 2012 elections.
It’s not about ending poverty, it’s about killing capitalism.
The poor produce nothing and employ nobody.
If you “kill the rich”, then everyone is poor. There
is no incentive to perform above the rest as that
just paints a target on your back. When there is
no reward for effort (private property), there is
no incentive to work more than necessary to
sustain a minimal existence.
It’s aggravating that there is no way to read the article as it appears in The Nation. Useless link.
They voted in November, bitch. And in the next presidential election, they'll vote again.
“The troublemakers are eliminated once their job as useful idiots has been completed.”
Yes. But the tyrants remain. So the demise of the useful idiots is thin gruel.
If you care to read Piven’s article, I found it at
http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=2472
Her effort is to destroy Capitalism and replace it with, guess what?
They just call it something else.
Sounds like the old bat needs to be wheeled back to the home and sedated. Americans have their eyes on nuts like this and if the left tries to pull a Trotsky on us, we’re going to go down on them like the little boy over Japan.
See #15, I found it elsewhere
For those who have longed to read the original article from the May, 1966 issue of The Nation but have never been able to find it, your wait is over:
http://www.thenation.com/print/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty
There it is, in all its glory.
Read it and weep, my friends, the call to arms to end what The Founders began two centuries ago.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. “
It’s about global enslavement...
I though these two had died. But no, they’re still thrashing about like typical angry lefties angry at their daddies and mommies.
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