First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Sparking this rebellion begins with exposing the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals, "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts...