Cloward-Piven is just one tactic for one type of battle.
Gramsci (Italian communist imprisoned by Mussolini), saw that the Bolsheviks would not hold their power long. While in prison, he devised what we now refer to as the cultural revolution. His strategy was the playbook of what the Fabians had designed for decades (brainwashing and indoctrinating the people until they voted for and chose communism, which they called democratic socialism).
Academics in Germany (known as the Frankfurt school) picked up on Gramsci’s playbook and further detailed how it would work through academe. When Hitler came to power, they fled (many of the being Jews) to New York and established “The New School for Social Research” (no more than a communist re-education camp and think-tank).
Cloward-Piven became students, graduates, and then re-educators from that school.
For what it's worth, and I have only just begun to research the issue, “Report from Iron Mountain” was a study that toyed with the idea of how to keep people enslaved and obedient to the government through crisis. The two crises that they came up with (supposedly, I haven't read it) were war and environmental disaster brought about through man's activity.
If the findings of Iron Mountain were true (and it is not a hoax, as some claim) then the latter crisis was especially prescient and a supreme way of reducing the industrialized nations (and those who enjoy the fruits of those nations, such as leftists) to willingly shackle themselves to the Algores of the world in order to alleviate their guilt.
I'll just say again (as I have in other threads), while there was definite economic downturn fro 07-08, I don't believe it warranted or resulted in an ‘economic crisis.’ I think what we saw was the mother of all October surprises by some very rich and powerful political brokers (Soros is one of their puppets) to get Obammie the Commie in the WH. I have no hard evidence of this, just the replay of history.
Hedge funds shorts with naked shorting, credit default swaps and offshore money. The public had their retirement money stolen and were robbed again by the stimulus.
The only way to counter is to neutralize the power of CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS. Either by cancelling cable and sat TV sibs enmasse and switch to Internet TV or skipping TV entirely. It may be too late because too much of the populace is illiterate or illegals and recent immigrants who want govt handouts. Americans get taxed to death to pay for the country’s destruction.