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Cloward and Piven Strategy (view source)
Revision as of 01:59, September 15, 2024
, 01:59, September 15, 2024→Post collapse: One goal for full scale collapse is a guaranteed annual income, in other words UBI.
They viewed the effort as self-sustaining and self-building, writing that:
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>
<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.
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.
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:
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>
<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>
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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>
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>
==Post collapse==
The primary objective of the Cloward Piven strategy is systemic collapse, however the longer-term goals were not lost on the authors. They wrote:
<blockquote>''If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.''</blockquote>
==See also==
==See also==
* [[2018 Migrant caravan]]
* [[2018 Migrant caravan]]
* [[Long march through the institutions]]
* [[Long march through the institutions]]
* [[Universal basic income]]
== References ==
== References ==