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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. ''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>"The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue.[http://www.thenation.com/ Website]</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)]

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. ''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>"The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue.[http://www.thenation.com/ Website]</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)]

 

==See also==

==See also==

* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/recenteffortstooverloadtheamericansystem.html DiscoverTheNetworks.org; Recent Efforts to Overload the American System]

* [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/recenteffortstooverloadtheamericansystem.html DiscoverTheNetworks.org; Recent Efforts to Overload the American System]

* [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html American Thinker; Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis]

* [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html American Thinker; Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis]

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