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Cloward-Piven the Radicals Behind Obama's Agenda
Actually, what's happening to our capitalist economy and to our representative democracy, the present neo-Marxist assault, has been underway since the early stages of the twentieth century. Notwithstanding, the extreme radical politics we're witnessing today -- the attempt to destroy capitalism and individual liberty in favor of Marxist style collectivism -- has been the not so subtle policy objective of extremists within the Democrat party since the election of Bill and Hill in 1992. I, for one, was absolutely sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would be the one's to crash our economy with socialist health-care, huge deficits, and taxes reset to pre-Reagan levels. In so doing they'd have created an economic crisis that would have us all begging for mercy - their mercy, and their Utopian agenda. I was wrong. The American people were having none of the Clinton agenda back then and the Democrats suffered defeats in mid term elections that stunned their party faithful. So much so in fact, it appeared to most observers that Democrats had been cast from majority status as far into the future as the mind's eye could imagine. Nonetheless, our ever prepared to look a gift-horse in the mouth republicans, especially those of the Bush, McCain, Graham, Specter variety, have blown the royal-flush-opportunity we'd been given -- in spades.
Not only did elected Republicans fail to uphold the "conservative" ideological basis of the Republican party platform; they all but assured that a vast cross section of middle-of-the-road Americans would conclude there to be no substantive difference between Democrats and Republicans whatsoever. And today we're paying the price for that disconnect from middle America so very dearly. As a result our posterity, should the Democrats and assorted Marxist/Leninist radicals calling the shots succeed where the Clinton's failed, will be reading an historical account of America's transformation into neo-communism (created from whole cloth of course) which extols the virtue of the American communist revolution. All, of course, while painting the darkest possible picture of the blasphemers (that would be us) who attempted to preserve capitalism and free enterprise as the means by which Americans could and should exercise their God given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Today I read an article posted online at American Thinker, by James Simpson regarding the Cloward-Piven strategy of coup d'etat which linked me to an article he had written 14 months prior. @ http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
Simpson's prior article titled 'Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis' makes the Obama administration's radical hard-left-Marxist agenda all too clear. And as I said in a prior post, the damage Obama is able to do to our Republic remains to be seen. But damage, in fact mortally wounding, is precisely the policy under way by this administration. Read, if ye can stomach it, as follows:
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.
The following excerpt by David Horowitz enunciates Cloward-Plevin as THE strategem deployed to destroy our economy, obliterate free market capitalsim, and bring on economic collapse:
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)
The following sourced articles were also referenced
Newsmax rounds out the picture:
Their strategy to create political, financial, and social chaos that would result in revolution blended Alinsky concepts with their more aggressive efforts at bringing about a change in U.S. government. To achieve their revolutionary change, Cloward and Piven sought to use a cadre of aggressive organizers assisted by friendly news media to force a re-distribution of the nation's wealth.
In their Nation article, Cloward and Piven were specific about the kind of "crisis" they were trying to create:
By crisis, we mean a publicly visible disruption in some institutional sphere. Crisis can occur spontaneously (e.g., riots) or as the intended result of tactics of demonstration and protest which either generate institutional disruption or bring unrecognized disruption to public attention.
No matter where the strategy is implemented, it shares the following features:
- The offensive organizes previously unorganized groups eligible for government benefits but not currently receiving all they can.
- The offensive seeks to identify new beneficiaries and/or create new benefits.
- The overarching aim is always to impose new stresses on target systems, with the ultimate goal of forcing their collapse.
In his most recent article on American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/clowardpiven_government.html James Simpson connects all the dots, here's just a small sampling regarding the radicals Obama can be tied to:
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two lifelong members of Democratic Socialists of America who taught sociology at Columbia University (Piven later went on to City University of New York). In a May 1966 Nation magazine article titled "The Weight of the Poor," they outlined their strategy, proposing to use grassroots radical organizations to push ever more strident demands for public services at all levels of government.
The result, they predicted, would be "a profound financial and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces ... for major economic reform at the national level."
They implemented the strategy by creating a succession of radical organizations, most notable among them the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), with the help of veteran "organizer" Wade Rathke. Their crowning achievement was the "Motor Voter" act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 with Cloward and Piven standing behind him.
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Compare the foregoing to my post of Sept. 24th, 2009 on brane smasher blog at townhall.com, the following excerpts were originally published by the Socialist Labor Party in 1925. My post "Our Marxist in Chief" Connects Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to this current state of affairs:
http://branesmasher.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/24/our_marxist_in_chief,_an_historic_perspective.thtml
Please take note: The radical nexus to Columbia University and City College of New York is key to understanding the Khruschev admontion that America would be destroyed from within. Again, as reported in my post "Our Marxist in Chief" (linked above) -- Julius Rosenberg infamous traitor executed for espionage with his wife Ethel in 1953, attended City College of New York same said as City University. There are NO coincidences in this attack on America. Here are the roots of the Rosenberg's treachery as first published in the Weekly People August 1, 1925 titled "The Workers Party [USSR] vs The Socialist Labor Party [USA]" by Joseph Brandon (republished in 1926 as Arm & Hammer pamphlet #8) read as follows:
Russia's Problem and Ours: In Russia the problem was not to take the industries but to create them. In America the problem is the reverse. We do not have to create the industries, what we must do is to take them. The easiest task the Russians had, the seizing of power, is the hardest nut we have to crack, and the thing that is no task for us at all is what is puzzling the Russians night and day, all these years. When the working class seizes power in America it controls all that is necessary to run production on socialized lines. A dictatorship of the proletariat is unnecessary, the workers being in a majority. There will not even be a rule of the proletariat because the act of socializing the industries automatically abolishes all classes and therefore the proletariat as a class ceases to be.
Organization Must Preceed Revolution: Obviously the workers cannot wait until the Social Revolution has stepped upon the scene and then organize. Tactics therefore dictate the organization of the working class today, under capitalism, into an organization whose primary purpose is to seize the industries and act as the framework of the new social order. Just as the chick develops in the shell before the world as a distinct creature, so the future society must be built up under capitalism. And just as the fully developed chick breaks the shell of its egg, so the shell of capitalism will never be broken until the organization of future society is developed to the point where it is able to function. Does it not follow logically that the working class must organize today, under capitalism, in order to achieve its emancipation?
Ignorance Extends to Politics: The Workers Party wants a dictatorship of the proletariat. But it argues that the large mass of workers will never become Socialist and will have to be led by an intelligent [elitist] minority. So it is willing to unite with any movement of workers, no matter how wrong this may be, in order that they will have some masses to lead. This is called a united front. (blogger's note: the American Socialist Labor Party rejected this tactic)
How to "Bore" and How to Build: The SLP says, “Bore from within but bore to a purpose.” The purpose of working inside the trade unions is to destroy the bulwark of capitalism and establish bulwarks of Socialism, the industrial union.
The Revolutionary Organization: The SLP correctly holds that the political party must be a party of no compromise (blogger's note - does this remind anyone of Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the radical Dems?). The SLP mission is to point the way to the goal and it refuses to leave the main road to follow the small bypaths that lead into the swamp of reformism. Its skirts are clean. The banner of Socialism is held high, uncorrupted, and not dragged down into the mire of petty bourgeois reform. Capitalism cannot be reformed. It must be overthrown.
The Real Power of Labor: Here in America we have a right to come out openly and agitate for the overthrow of the government and the establishment of a workers’ republic. If we did not have this opportunity then no alternative would be open for us but to advocate a violent overthrow of capitalism...
Which brings us to The Cloward-Piven Strategy of "Orchestrated Crisis". Keeping in mind that Democrats at least as far back as FDR have used the strategy of creating crises for which they conveniently offer up the only possible solution that will get "mainstream" media attention, is #1 in their play-book. Is it a coincidence that Obama attended Columbia University, the same radicalized university that churned out the likes of Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven? or, that Piven and Julius Rosenberg, though not contemporaries, were both alumni of City College of New York? Is it any wonder there are no available academic records regarding Obama's time at Columbia? And let us not forget Rahm Emmanuel, Obama chief of staff, who said in the context of this current economic disaster, that a crisis is an opportunity to do that which might otherwise be impossible.
Our republic is threatened more seriously today than if Nikita Khruschev had succeeded in placing and making operational those nuclear warheads atop their Cuban based ballistic missiles in 1962. Yet in the 60's, Mutually Assured Destruction was a formidible deterrent to Soviet threats. The only deterrent we have in this day and age against the neo-communist revolution now under way, is the American people. If 'we the people' succeed by election, public pressure and whatever other means necessary to put down this attack on our American republic, then the conspirators in Obama's attempted coup d'etat should be arrested, tried and convicted for the crime of high treason. If we fail, if our elections are tampered with, or if they simply never occur due to some new crisis, it will be Game-Over for the America we once knew and loved.
I'm thankful that we're still able to discuss these issues openly, I wonder how long that liberty will last. It's up to each of us to determine how long, we know what the obamanation intends.
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