Posted on 08/01/2011 10:44:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
Combine class warfare, demonizing the rich, getting as many people onto the welfare rolls as possible, and pushing the economic system to collapse and you have a flawless formula for Cloward-Piven 2.0 -- and a vehicle that ensures Obama remains in power.
Cloward-Piven is a much talked-about strategy proposed in the mid-1960's by two Columbia University sociology professors named Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. The Cloward-Piven approach was sometimes referred to as the "crisis strategy," which they believed were a means to "end poverty."
The premise of the Cloward-Piven collective/anti-capitalist gospel decried "individual mobility and achievement," celebrated organized labor, fostered the principle that "if each finally found himself in the same relative economic relationship to his fellows ... all were infinitely better off."
The duo taught that if you flooded the welfare rolls and bankrupted the cities and ultimately the nation, it would foster economic collapse, which would lead to political turmoil so severe that socialism would be accepted as a fix to an out-of-control set of circumstances.
The idea was that if people were starving and the only way to eat was to accept government cheese, rather than starve, the masses would agree to what they would otherwise reject. In essence, for the socialist-minded, the Cloward-Piven strategy is a simple formula that makes perfect sense; the radical husband-and-wife team had Saul Alinsky as their muse, and they went on to teach his social action principles to a cadre of socialist-leaning community organizers, one of whom was Barack Obama.
As the debt crisis continues to worsen, President Obama stands idly by an inferno with his arms crossed, shaking his head, and doing nothing other than kinking the fire hose and closing the spigot...
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Yet another great post from you, Noumenon! I agree completely!
CA....
Get the point? Huh???
This guy and his minions have, since January 20, 2009, completely ignored us, the American people. Even in the face of an election rebuff he himself termed as a “shellacking”.
You think at this point in time he is going to “get the point”?
I don’t think so, and neither do very many other people here.
CA....
It’s hard to feel sorry for “the rich”.
They pretty much support Obama and his liberal horde.
>> “if everyone is forced onto the dole, then there are no farmers left to produce the milk and/or to make the cheese.” <<
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Soviet Policy 101
(didn’t work)
The lazy have, from the infinite past, and into the infinite future, imagined producers to be born to produce, thus lacking a need for motivation. It must be something in the water.
>> Its hard to feel sorry for the rich. <<
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You apparently have failed to come to grips with the fact that by the left’s definition, YOU are the “rich.”
We have connected the dots running from The Frankfurt School through Cloward and Piven to Saul Alinsky and to his posthumous acolyte, Barak Obama. We have argued from the beginning that Barack Obama is an ideologue and it misconceives our adversary to dismiss him as an incompetent. If our thesis is correct it misdirects our efforts to tell the electorate that they should not believe the evidence of their own eyes. The fact of the matter is that Obama makes a very presidential appearance and, if necessary, he can perform more than adequately without teleprompters.
The condition of the country is the results of his ideology not his incompetence.
More importantly, this characterization of the man, even if arrived at belatedly properly appraises us of the nature of our enemy and forces us to face the hard reality that there can never be any decent accommodation of any sort with him. He must he be defeated and his ideology must be destroyed. If not, he and his ideology will destroy us.
If our Republican paladins in the house had had a better understanding of the man, perhaps they would have negotiated differently. Perhaps they will pay attention to the American Thinker as they did not give heed to our warnings.
Excellent post, thank you.
Yes, indeed. You've touched upon something very important here. In the course of working on my book, I've identified what may be called the corollary of the will to power: the desire to submit.
"He [Albert Camus] had noticed a modern impulse to rebel, which had come out of the French Revolution and the nineteenth century and had very quickly, in the name of an ideal, mutated into a cult of death. And the ideal was always the same, though each movement gave it a different name. It was not skepticism and doubt. It was the ideal of submission."
Paul Berman - Terror and Liberalism p46
Breathtaking, isn't it? Eric Hoffer, noted American philosopher, grants us another perspective what I have come to call the tyranny of the weak:
"It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression."
The weak and the power-driven are co-dependants in a horribly addictive scheme whose outcome is worse than war - wholesale slaughter, committed with energy and enthusiasm, and the imposition of cruelty, misery and slavery upon the survivors.
Again, thanks for youur insights and your clarity.
Ever hear of Kent State?
Are you kidding? they already do.
We liken this to the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The question is how long will the ‘true believers’ trust in their ‘Leaders’ while being betrayed the whole time. It happens every instance a population foregoes self reliance.
‘You can fool some of the people, some of the time...’
This isn’t about anything but pure adulterated power for those in charge.
It’s a good question. Same one I asked the night that Yeltsin stood up and demanded release of the Soviet Premier, while the tanks rolled down the street.
That is when I felt, the Russian system would change, because the military was no longer willing to blindly follow orders.
Believe it, most 19 year-old PFCs and lance corporals will follow orders to disarm racist right-wing racists and homophobes and Christian zealots and rich people who don't want "shared sacrifice."
Believe it, most 19 year-old PFCs and lance corporals will follow orders to disarm racist right-wing racists and homophobes and Christian zealots and rich people who don't want "shared sacrifice."
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Cloward-Piven Strategy = Barackolypse How (to)
I just finished reading: “Captains and the Kings”, by Taylor Caldwell.
Highly recommended reading. A fact-based fiction written around 1970 with a story beginning at the time of the civil war, it lays out these globalist games pretty well.
Worse than short sighted-—absolutely ignorant of human nature. I’m pretty sure I have enough firepower to take away THEIR cheeze before they get a chance to enjoy it.
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