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Cloward–Piven strategy - fundamentally transforming America
The Cairco Report ^ | unk. | Fred Eibel

Posted on 09/02/2023 11:23:46 AM PDT by Signalman

What is the Cloward–Piven strategy?

The Cloward–Piven strategy was developed in 1966 by Americans Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven - both sociologists and political activists. The Cloward–Piven strategy focused on overloading the United States public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis, which would ultimately lead to replacing the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty".

An ancillary consequence of the strategy includes shoring up of the Democratic Party, which at the time was splintered by pluralistic interests. Another side effect would be relieving local and state governments of public welfare burdens, since the burden would be shifted to the federal government - in other words, in a manifestation of socialism. Taxpayers, of course, would cover the cost in either case.

Cloward and Piven focused primarily on redistribution of income, stating that full enrollment in welfare programs:

"would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments" that would: "...deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas."...

The ultimate objective of this strategy—to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income—will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.

Near-term effects of the Cloward–Piven strategy In a new 2010 introduction to the original article, Frances Fox Piven wrote in The Nation:

Our objective was not, as later critics of the Glenn Beck variety later charged, to propose a strategy to bring down American capitalism. We were not so ambitious. But we did think that the minority poor and their allies might create sufficient disturbance to force reforms in the American income support programs. And we were not entirely wrong.

Political commentator James McWhorter wrote in his 2006 book Winning the Race that the rise in the welfare state after the 1960s could be attributed to the Cloward Piven strategy. He reported that the strategy unfortunately "created generations of black people for whom working for a living is an abstraction."

Whether or not the above point is wholly true, the strategy has affected change, as noted by Piven.

Long-term effects of the Cloward–Piven strategy The strategy, while originally intended to bring about a socialistic guaranteed national income, remains a viable way to transform an entire nation. Indeed, many of the changes we see in America today are consistent within the framework of the Cloward–Piven strategy. A few examples are provided below:

1965 Immigration Act The 1965 Immigration Act marked the turning point when American immigration was no longer managed for the American interest. In his article The Collapse of America - A Plan Decades in the Making, David Risselada states:

In my article "Amnesty and the Immigration Act of 1965", I discussed the origins of the immigration crisis we are now facing and how it was nothing but a plot to secure more voters for the Democrat Party. This was based on the ideas of Marxism and the teachings of Antonio Gramsci, who taught that America's culture would have to be changed incrementally from within. The immigration act of 1965 was signed into law by Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson. This is the same president who promised Americas black communities free welfare for their votes...

At the time America's immigration laws were based on a quota system, meaning that immigrants from any part of the world were allowed in based on the number of existing immigrants already in country from that part of the world. This was done in an effort to maintain national identity and ensure that people with useful skills and a desire to assimilate into our culture would be the ones to immigrate here. This meant that most of the people who were immigrating here were of European ancestry and just as is the case today, people referred to this as a racist system...

It should be noted that this act resulted in ever-increasing numbers of foreigners - both legal and illegal - entering America who would become dependent on America's generous taxpayer-paid welfare system.

2008 financial crisis From the article: Chandler: The Cloward-Piven strategy, The Washington Times, October 15, 2008. There is plenty blame to go around for the financial crash. Yet, there is a distinct odor of the shadowy Cloward-Piven strategy as the taproot of abusive practices that triggered the crisis. The strategy’s goal is to bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading and undermining government bureaucracy.

Its supporting tactics include flooding government with impossible demands until it slowly cranks to a stop; overloading electoral systems with successive tidal waves of new voters, many of them bogus; shaking down banks, politicians in Congress, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development for affirmative-action borrowing; and, now, pulling down the national financial system by demanding exotic, subprime mortgages for low-income Americans with little hope of repaying their loans. These toxic mortgages are an important source of the foul smell engulfing the entire financial bailout...

Stanley Kurtz of the Ethics and Public Policy Center explained that "community organizers help to undermine America’s economy by pushing the banking system into a sink-hole of bad loans."...

2014 Border crisis - Unaccompanied Alien Children In Summer 2014, a massive influx of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) inundated our southern border. Barak Obama's immigration actions (or lack thereof) seemed to be an efficacious implementation of the Cloward–Piven strategy. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. warned that "Carried by this tsunami of illegals are the invisible “travelers” our politicians don’t like to mention: diseases the U.S. had controlled or virtually eradicated: tuberculosis (TB), Chagas disease, dengue fever, hepatitis, malaria, measles, plus more."

Obama invited these minors into the US. He has virtually gutted America's immigration enforcement system, and has taken even more outrageous executive actions. Of course, both political parties are culpable, as there is an active bipartisan amnesty exponent in Congress.

The 2014 border crisis was a manufactured crisis of the first order, which in the short term backfired. Virginia voters immediately fired House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), predominantly because he signed on to the Republican amnesty plan and expressed intent to work with Obama on a "Kids Act" for Dreamers. But the long-term damage remains.

2015 Syrian refugees - importing terrorism After the November 2015 Paris Islamic terrorist attacks, Obama recommitted to bring Syrian "refugees" into the United States. This was notwithstanding the facts that a sizeable proportion are not from Syria, a majority are young men of military age, and that the U.S. government has no way to vet those coming in as "refugees".

Such refugees would become an additional burden on American taxpayers and could indeed comprise a very real terrorist threat.

The end result - fundamentally transforming America In the 2014 article, Why the White House Wants Amnesty, Ben Shapiro writes:

Cloward-Piven’s goal was to create impetus for government to guarantee a universal living. The modern Democratic Party is significantly less interested in guaranteed benefits than for an economic leveling. The motivating factor of the left is not caring for the poor but tearing down the wealthy...

And so the Democrats will move to bankrupt the system. No welfare state can survive with open borders. That is a truism. And yet that’s exactly what Democrats are now promoting: open borders with a full welfare state. Why? Not because Democrats believe that the homegrown poor in America will be better off with more people joining them on the dole; they won’t. Rather, Democrats love the size and scope of the state and despise the rival the state faces in individual success. A growing welfare base requires higher taxation, more degradation of individual success. That is the goal...

The Cloward–Piven strategy remains an active instrument of change in America. Ultimately, it is the tool by which multicultural elites aim to "fundamentally transform America."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cloward; clowardpiven; piven; transformingamerica; welfare

1 posted on 09/02/2023 11:23:46 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Communists again


2 posted on 09/02/2023 11:24:59 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Signalman
You end poverty by making everybody equal. equally poor.

in a world of hunger, the man with a single potato chip rules.

3 posted on 09/02/2023 11:35:26 AM PDT by Ikeon (i believe in clubs for women and clubs for males. but only when kindness fails)
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To: Signalman

2 fkg Communists doing the work of Marx, Lenin, and Obama.

In the end it would only result in a Dictatorship, backed up by a Criminal Crime Syndicate.

All Communists need to assume room temperature as soon as possible


4 posted on 09/02/2023 11:39:25 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Signalman

If you eliminate poverty, nobody will do anything.
People are by nature lazy, and the more you help them, the less they will work.


5 posted on 09/02/2023 11:40:30 AM PDT by AZJeep
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To: R0CK3T

Or they could all go blind for 5 long years...Imagine a world without sight for dem politicians......


6 posted on 09/02/2023 11:46:59 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: butlerweave
I asked a Democrat that I know about how we should adapt to a post scarcity economy.
The first words out of his mouth were "Marx described, well not just Marx but other economists as well"..
So you're right, they eventually will out themselves as Marxists.

7 posted on 09/02/2023 11:47:30 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Signalman
"The Cloward–Piven strategy was developed in 1966 by Americans Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven - both sociologists and political activists hard-core, unrepentant communists."
8 posted on 09/02/2023 11:49:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: AZJeep

**People are by nature lazy, and the more you help them, the less they will work.**

That includes commie sociology ‘professors like Mizz Piven. Instead of working a real job, she has spent her life running her mouth about things she doesn’t understand.

Send a bus load of migrants to her home, so they can enlighten her.


9 posted on 09/02/2023 12:43:02 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Signalman

bttt


10 posted on 09/02/2023 2:51:42 PM PDT by facedown (uite)
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To: Steely Tom

Yes it’s why the democrat party adopted their strategy.

Socialism Marxism communism all the same the bigger war starts when one party wins.


11 posted on 09/03/2023 8:21:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Signalman

BTTT


12 posted on 09/12/2023 6:34:01 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Signalman
Ultimately, it is the tool by which multicultural elites aim to "fundamentally transform America."

Clearly they also misuse the language to deceive. transform = destroy.

13 posted on 09/12/2023 6:41:16 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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