Posted on 07/16/2009 5:15:07 AM PDT by Scanian
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder Wade Rathke wants to use the Internet to overthrow the capitalist system.
He said so in his new book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families, in which he serves up some community organizing war stories, and offers his thoughts on the future of organizing.
Rathke, a pioneer of the so-called welfare rights movement that aims to get Americans on welfare, devotes an entire chapter of his book to what he calls "The 'Maximum Eligible Participation' Solution." It is a strategy for orchestrated crisis that savvy leftist groups across America are likely to embrace.
"[I]t is hard to believe that we cannot assemble the troops to mount a campaign for maximum eligible participation that harvests the opportunities and dollars already available if we could achieve full utilization of existing programs," he writes.
Rathke acknowledges his support for the Cloward-Piven Strategy, an approach to radical social and political change articulated by Marxist university professors Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven in a 1966 Nation article, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." The two academics called for "a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls" in an effort to overwhelm the system. [Italics in original.]
The strategy helped to bankrupt New York City in 1975. Years later, the Big Apple's mayor, Rudy Giuliani, denounced the academic activists by name.
In the Nation article, Cloward and Piven made it clear that they were irritated that plenty of Americans legally eligible to receive forcibly redistributed wealth hadn't bothered to ask for handouts. "The discrepancy is not an accident stemming from bureaucratic inefficiency; rather, it is an integral feature of the welfare system which, if challenged, would precipitate a profound financial and political crisis."
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Wade and his brother embezzled money from the poor just like Ken lay at Enron.
He is hardly against being wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Scumbags like Rathke want marxism for two reasons.
1. they appear to be getting very rich doing so.
2. they want power.
These “organizers have done nothing for the poor. They only create more poor people while they themselves get richer. Look at Al Gore. That fat SOB has increased his net worth by some 5000% in 8 years of promoting his fantasy of global warming as a means of global government.
Yeah I’ve seen some former ACORN members on TV begging for help from anyone to investigate the leadership and what’s gone on in the organization.
Seems nobody in a position to do so gives a damn.
ACORN’s a powerful tool of the leftist elites and the ends justifies the means.
Hey, what an idea! Does welfare pay more than my sociable security? Can I get BOTH?
< /sarc >
What capitalist system? We’re already going socialist full steam ahead.
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