[Plutarch]

Everybody has heard of the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which is a reference to an article published in The Nation. But most it seems have never read the article, this because it wasn't available on the internet anywhere, save for purchasing the article from The Nation (something I did, The Nation emails a .pdf of the article, and then you get a steady stream of increasingly desperate fund-raising emails from them). In March some lefty outfit, CommonDreams.org, published the article on their website , and so now it is available. FR won't let me use a link from CommonDreams.org, so I've linked to another website that links to CommonDreams.

So, now unlike Democrats, who never have read the bill, if any of you mention the Cloward-Piven strategy, you can say you've read the article.

[GeronL]

“A Strategy to End Poverty”

um... that will make everyone impoverished.

[PackerBoy]

Poverty is a moving target and relative. By definition or convention, it will never end. It’s entirely subjective.

[JimSEA]

Thank you for this post.

[MEGoody]

Jesus said the poor will always be with us.

"Poverty" (however one chooses to define it) will not be wiped out, no matter how hard mankind tries to do it. All we can do is help those in need.

Real help includes teaching them employable skills and giving them short term assistance in an emergency. It does NOT mean working to get them addicted to the public dole.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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"a convergence of civil rights organizations, militant anti-poverty groups and the poor..."

And let's not forget a key element, your denominational/seminary/parish Social Justice committee.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Bookmark

"a convergence of civil rights organizations, militant anti-poverty groups and the poor..."

And let's not forget a key element, your denominational/seminary/parish Social Justice committee.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Clinton signing the Motor Voter Bill with Cloward and Piven looking on and beaming.

[Excellence]

And those seeking new ways to engage the Negro politically should remember that public resources have always been the fuel for low-income urban political organization. If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors. At least, they have always done so in the past.

The key to the whole thing.

[jonno]

bump - for later read...

[zzeeman]

Thanks for posting this. I’ve heard quite a bit about it, but never had a chance to actually read the original text. I can’t accurately count the number of ways that any Freedom- and Liberty-loving citizen should be disgusted and appalled by both their thought process and the way it is described. It made me sick to my stomach reading it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Zoykes!

[Cacique]

Nowhere in that tome is poverty clearly defined. The reason being that you cannot define poverty as it is a relational term. American poor are the wealthiest poor in the world with the highest standard of living of any poor anywhere. This is the problem with socialism. It’s all about class envy and relational wealth. It is about redistribution, not about creating wealth since these idiots have no understanding of economics whatsoever.