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Cloward-Piven Strategy

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The goal of the American Fifth Column is to bring about broad based permanent change in America. The effort is seldom focused upon speed of change, tending to seek incremental victories over huge sweeping changes more likely to be opposed, though like all well organized movements, it will seek to exploit any opportunity for safe swift advancement of the agenda.

In the case of the American Fifth Column, its agents see the America of the past as being no longer viable for the future and therefore, seek change not only in direction, but in fundamental belief systems in order to make room for more so-called progressive ideas.

At the base, the American Fifth Column is not happy with the results of capitalism, otherwise known as economic freedom. While “fair,” the results of economic freedom are not “equal” for all.

Like those they represent and support, and those whose ideas they adopted to replace Americas founding principles, they do not see people as individuals with individual dreams and desires, or individual talents, aspirations and abilities, all of which naturally result in varied individual outcomes.

The American Fifth Column seeks to subvert fundamental American principles and values, which they see as out-dated and unfair, in order to usher in a new era of broader progressive “equality” whereby the fruits of ones own labor are not his own, but to be used for a greater common good. This greater good is not limited to the American people. It encompasses a global greater good, paid for by Americas most productive individuals, ultimately at the expense of true freedom and liberty itself.

Citizenship

Cloward-Piven Strategy
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles, Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, 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; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.
Sources: Discover the Networks, Wikipedia, Answers.com

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