Democratic Socialists Channel Cloward-Piven

American Thinker ^ | 23 Jul, 2026 | Jeannie DeAngelis

[MtnClimber]

How convenient that this new DSA crop proposes to fix the problems it’s causing.

Is what we’re living through a political replay of the Age of Aquarius? Maybe it’s just me, but I can almost smell the patchouli oil. Everywhere I look, I’m confronted with the same bell-bottomed flower children who caused trouble back in the hippie days of the 1960s. It’s as though the radicals of that era have simply inhabited new bodies: men without Adam’s apples sporting fake smiles and shrill, pink-p[----]-hat-wearing female militants who drive their cars into ICE agents and make up the radical wing of the Democrat party and its illegitimate love child, the Democratic Socialists of America.

It was way back in 1966, as the scent of incense and patchouli began wafting across college campuses, that professors Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, of Columbia University’s School of Social Work, wrote an article titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.” Fran and Rich proposed using chaos to achieve their goals, which, judging from what we’re witnessing right now, remains the left’s most tried-and-true tactic. Lest we forget, Saul Alinsky, the man who influenced and inspired Barack Obama’s community organizing strategy, is the holy father of provoking crisis to initiate change.

It’s no surprise that, to date, we’ve not yet heard Barack Obama slap back at AOC or Zohran Mamdani with a rebuke stating that Democratic Socialism is incompatible with American ideals. Maybe silence is Barry’s implicit — behind-the-scenes — way of confirming that he agrees that “the world as it is” isn’t “the world as it should be.” After all, he does emphasize democracy over the constitutional republic and, based on his visit to the South Bronx with comrade Zohran, obviously believes in free childcare.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; dsa; leftism; newyorkcity; zohranmamdani

[MtnClimber]

Overwhelm the system to make it collapse. The strategy of orchestrated crisis.

[AZJeep]

Granted, the DSA has expanded its goals far beyond Cloward-Piven, but the underlying strategy, if you’re paying attention, remains strikingly similar: Foment a crisis. Push the system to an unlivable crescendo. Then rush in with the leftist solution.

It’s a tactic as old as Marxist, socialist, and communist organizing itself — and thus far, remarkably effective.
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Yes, leftists always used chaos as strategy to gain power, and once in power, never left it go!
Communists took over Russia during the chaos of WWI.
WWII expanded Communist power to East Europe, China, Korea, etc.
Great depression and WWII chaos spread socialism all over the world.
So now, socialists are trying to create chaos.

[Vaduz]

Cloward-Pive = Self Destruct Manual

[sauropod]

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[Zathras]

The move to Communism began in the mid 1800’s.
The Spanish Civil War was to push Communism into Spain.
Ernest Hemingway was paid by the communists to use the words “Anti Fascist” when describing their opposition.
They also paid for his lavish lodging and lifestyle.

George Orwell originally was going the same way and quickly realized he was being lied to and then proceeded to back Franco.

[Kudsman]

Americans better turn out in 26 or we very well may be dying and hiding in 28 instead of voting.

[bk1000]

Maybe we should pause to consider that those people will never be convinced of the error of their ways through discussion and debate. Anyone espousing socialist or communist ideology should be unapologetically and unceremoniously beaten down by the people around him.

[griswold3]

Yes. It’s the same ol story, the same ol song and dance. They know the majority will not relinquish their time, talent and property for the ‘common good’. They know deep down “Power grows out of the barrel of the gun.” Violence is coming.