Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were Ivy League political activists with an ironic concern for the poor. Both professors at Columbia University School of Social Strategy authored an article in 1966 titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty” featured that year in The Nation magazine.
Both life-long Democrat Socialists, like Vermont’s darling Senator Sanders, they conceived of a strategy based on the Hegelian dialectic of thesis-antithesis = synthesis.
To clarify, Hegel taught a philosophy of social alchemy whereby societies could be changed in the desired direction by pitting their natural contradictions (thesis-antithesis) in an effort to meld them (alchemically) into the desired outcome (synthesis).
In other words, the order out of chaos approach to social justice we have been witnessing since the 1960s here in the states most recently with the Black Lives Matter riots, and the same strategy used in the French Revolution of the late 1700s around the time Rosseau and Hegel opined their ideas.
Their reasoning stems from the typical savior complex, a luxury idea, fancied by the elite and quasi-elite alike. Rather than accept the reality of a certain level of impoverishment due to natural causes like unequal distribution of resources, disadvantaged political realities due to cultural idiosyncrasies, and the laziness and greed inherent to humanity, Cloward and Piven operate from the delusional view that societies can be forced into equitable realities and people are inherently good and hard-working opportunists.
Likewise, when this reality is achieved through a tortured path of repeated dialectical revolutions we will arrive at Utopia. Yes, they actually believe this socialist mythology.
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If nothing changes, then both parties are the same, no difference. We need Republican candidates who will fight to turn back the extremely bad programs that the Dems have put in with their 50+1 majority in the Senate. Harris has absolutely no idea what she is doing when she pulls the tie breaking vote in the Senate. She is so uneducated and void of any knowledge of how the government is supposed to work.
If we can cause the democommies to throw a big enough tantrum, maybe the majority of them will simply "stroke out" - - that would be part of the answer, Noticeable, 19, or 20 democommies have already decided to NOT run for reelection!
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OMG - it is really plain to see tghat the de"mock"rats don't want to end poverty. They thrive on it. The way to end poverty - tell people to get off their lazy asses and get to work (get to work stupid); stop inflation and a good basic education. Get rid of welfare (except in very specific cases such as a recently widowed woman who already has children - but no welfare for women who just have children for the extra money she can get). If our law makers don't want to end welfare; then tax it (no exemptions allowed)!
You nailed it my friend