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==Implementation==

==Implementation==

"In their estimation, it was to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of [[capitalism]] by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on economic collapse."<ref>''[http://web.archive.org/web/20170203134719/https://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty/ "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty"], [[The Nation]]</ref> Following its publication, [[liberal]] activists like [[Barack Obama]] were attracted to the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called, and were eager to put it into effect.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522 CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS)] [[Discover the Networks]]</ref>

The goal for Cloward and Piven was to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of [[capitalism]] by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on economic collapse. They wrote:

 

<blockquote>By the internal disruption of local bureaucratic practices, by the furor over public welfare poverty, and by the collapse of current financing arrangements, powerful forces can be generated for major economic reforms at the national level.<ref>''[http://web.archive.org/web/20170203134719/https://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty/ "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty"], [[The Nation]]</ref>

 

Following its publication, [[liberal]] activists like [[Barack Obama]] were attracted to the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called, and were eager to put it into effect.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522 CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS)] [[Discover the Networks]]</ref>

==See also==

==See also==