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Appendix 3: The “Cloward-Piven” Strategy

Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven
were both professors at the Columbia University School

of Social Work. The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political
strategy outlined in 1966 that called for overloading the
U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis
that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system
with "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to
poverty". Pundits sum up the strategy as embracing the
following elements:

Cloward-Piven Strategy - 8 controls for creating a
socialist state.

1. Healthcare– Control healthcare and you control the people.
2. Poverty – Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor
people are easier to control; they won’t fight back if you
provide what they need to live.
3. Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way
you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more
poverty.
4. Gun Control – Remove people’s ability to defend themselves
from Government. That way you are able to create a police
state.
5. Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives. (Food,
Housing, Income)
6. Education – Take control of what people read and listen to.
Take control of what children learn in school.
7. Religion – remove the belief in GOD from government and
schools.
8. Create Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and
the poor. This will cause more discontent; it will be easier to
tax the wealthy.

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