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Cloward–Piven strategy
How do you guys feel about the Cloward–Piven strategy as a road to revolution?
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was formulated in a May 1966 article in the liberal[1] magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".[2]
The two stated that many Americans who were eligible for welfare were not receiving benefits, and that a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party. There would also be side consequences of this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party then-splintered by pluralistic interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority constituencies by implementing a national "solution" to poverty); and relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens of public welfare (through a national "solution" to poverty).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward...Piven_strategy
http://ppe.mercatus.org/
Capitalism is fucked. Social-liberals who want a slightly less vicious capitalism are not going to change anything radical.
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
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It doesn't seem revolutionary at all. Nor strategic either, to be honest; it looks like reformist tactics.
Luís Henrique
From my observations it is actually completly wrong, the opposite occurs when welfare is overburdened.
States with overburdened welfare more often sought cuts and austerity meassures as opposed to expanding the system.
Yeah the strategy seems to take it as a starting point that the government would continue to provide those services, while those of us fortunate enough to have lived post-1966 know that isn't the case. Cute idea and it gives an interesting insight into how the role of government was perceived at one time.
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