The Cloward-Piven Strategy

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined by Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, then both sociologists and political activists at the Columbia University School of Social Work, in a 1966 article in The Nation entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty". It was a system designed to radically change our system of government & economics by overwhelming it with welfare & government dependents. In their own words

"activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation..."

 

Their goal is to overthrow Capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change. It is the ramping up of this strategy that we have seen the last two years under the Obama administration but this strategy has been in use by liberals in the US for the last 40+ years.

Here is the actual text of the 1966 article.