Monday, March 9, 2009

Further down the rabbit hole

Manufacturing a crisis - the Cloward-Piven strategy

Make sure your tinfoil hat is securely in place as we take another tour through the world of Obama's shady connections and inspirations. A strategy complimentary to Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" known as the "Cloward-Piven" strategy:

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox 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.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.

Irony alert: looters, and not just in the literary sense.

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