Where to begin?
Few people knew about Frances Fox Piven until her name surfaced on The Glenn Beck Show on the Fox News Channel in 2010. Beck introduced his audience to the radical views of Piven who together, with her husband, Richard Cloward, developed a strategy in 1966 to collapse the government by overloading the welfare system. Of course Piven complained about feeling "targeted" by Beck exposing such a wacky idea. We'd feel embarrassed, too, if our utopian visions of a future filled with lollipops and unicorns were exposed for all the world to see. Especially if we were supposed to be a "distinguished professor."
But we digress.
Piven has a long history of championing the poor. She even mentioned it again at the beginning of this year, in a January piece featured in The New York Times. She said, "an effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece."
And she's still singing the same tune. On December 14, Piven published an article in The Nation titled "A Proud, Angry Poor." From the article:
Still, the movement has to respond to the police sweeps of its encampments by becoming broader and more hard-hitting. It has to firmly include the vast number of people who have been marginalized by the rhetoric of American politics and by the realities of the American economy. In many places the homeless have joined the encampments. That is a beginning. But it’s not enough. To fully realize an ethic of inclusion, the poorest and most benighted Americans should become part of our protest movement. We need to increase their numbers at our demonstrations, and we need to undertake the protest actions that deal with their most urgent needs—including the attacks on the social safety net that hit them hardest.
Someone should have told Occupiers in Zuccotti Park in October that the homeless appearing out of nowhere were actually Piven's foot soldiers. Instead, the food workers in the camp staged a protest of their own because they didn't want the homeless to eat up all the Spaghetti Bolognese.
It's no surprise that Piven is an admirer of Karl Marx. In 1983 at a talk for the Socialists Scholars Conference, she described Marx (whose 100th anniversary of Marx's death was celebrated) "as the man whose ideas had enabled 'common people' around the globe to become 'historical actors.' She urged her listeners to 'stand within the intellectual and political tradition Marx bequeathed,” treating it not as a “dead inheritance” but rather as a “living tradition—the creation of thinking, active people.'"
Nothing like trying to paint a monster like Marx into some benevolent director of a play.
No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig, it is still a pig. Frances Fox Piven can't change history, no matter how much she tries to distract people from viewing the truth. Marxism kills. It killed millions when it was running Russia and it would kill many more if it has a chance to be in charge in the United States.
Read this article from Nobel Peace Prize finalist, R.J. Rummel. If someone you know is involved with Occupy Wall Street or sympathetic to it, let them know the real goal of the protest. It isn't to change policies so banks won't get bailouts or corporations won't be able to give huge amounts of donations to political parties.
The real goal is to destroy capitalism. Because once capitalism is destroyed, the Marxists think they'll just swoop in and take over.
Educate people at every opportunity presented to you. Inform. Challenge. Knowledge is power and the Marxists are counting on a bunch of ignorant peasants making their job easier. From R.J. Rummel's article (emphasis ours):
The next time you come across or are lectured by one of our indigenous Marxists, or almost the equivalent, leftist zealots, ask them how they can justify the murder of over a hundred million their absolutist faith has brought about, and the misery it has created for many hundreds of millions more.We agree. Ask.
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