Cloward And Piven Plan

Richard A. Cloward was then a professor of social work at Columbia University. He died in 2001. His co-author Frances Fox Piven was a research combine at Columbia’s School of Social Work. She now holds a Distinguished Professorship of Political Science and Sociology at the City University of New York. Both qualified Blagobamavich when his handlers arranged his transfer from the difficult to understand Occidental College to Columbia.

The Cloward-Piven plan seeks to rush the fall of capitalism by overloading the government organization with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. The Cloward-Piven approach called for swamp the welfare rolls with new applicants – more than the system could bear – so that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political confusion and ultimately Marxism.

The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), founded by African-American militant George Alvin Wiley, put the Cloward-Piven strategy to work in the streets. Its activities led directly to the welfare crisis that bankrupted New York City in 1975.

Veterans of NWRO went on to found the Living Wage Movement and the Voting Rights Movement, both of which rely on the Cloward-Piven strategy and both of which are spear-headed by the radical cult ACORN. Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros’s Open Society Institute.