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Cloward and Piven Strategy (view source)
Revision as of 01:52, September 15, 2024
, 01:52, September 15, 2024→Overview: Vote buying
==Overview==
==Overview==
Cloward and Piven were radical leftist [[Columbia University]] professors who believed in "change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots of [[Los Angeles]] in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of [[Saul Alinsky]]-type social change to America. They summarized it this way: "the strategy we propose, is a massive drive to recruit the poor ''onto'' the welfare rolls."
Cloward and Piven were radical leftist [[Columbia University]] professors who believed in "change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots of [[Los Angeles]] in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of [[Saul Alinsky]]-type social change to America. They summarized it this way: "the strategy we propose, is a massive drive to recruit the poor ''onto'' the welfare rolls."
They viewed the effort as self-sustaining and self-building, writing that:
<blockquote>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.</blockquote>
Put another way, money can be used to purchase the votes of people and continually retain their loyalty on election day for every ongoing election in the future.
==Implementation==
==Implementation==