Cloward-Piven

While trying to maintain a low profile on a plane yesterday, The Refugee caught the Glenn Beck show on Fox News. Beck showed a clip of Damon Vickers from Nine Points Management and Research on CNBC (I think) saying that the current direction of US debt would lead to a currency crisis that would result in a whole reworking of worldwide currency and a new world order. The Refugee does not do the analysis justice, but it was cogent and chilling.

Beck then interviewed Vickers and discussed Cloward-Piven. Columbia professors Cloward and Piven were two 1960's radicals intent on socializing America. On September 28, 2009, The American Thinker ran a piece on the Cloward-Piven strategy. Here is an excerpt:

The Strategy was first elucidated in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation magazine by a pair of radical socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. David Horowitz summarizes it as:

The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. 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.

Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:

"Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org)

Hopefully, The Refugee is not just falling into a conspiracy theory trap. However, it all adds up very nicely. Worth the read and worth the thought. Scary.

Economics and Markets Posted by Boulder Refugee at November 18, 2009 3:37 PM