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'''Richard Cloward''' and his wife, '''Francis Fox Piven''' wrote about collapsing the [[U.S.]] economy and how they planned to do it in an article they co-authored in the 1960's called, ''"Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done''. " Later, it was published in ''[[The Nation]]'', under the title ''"The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.''"

Cloward and Piven were radical leftist [[Columbia University]] professors who believed in "change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots of [[Los Angeles]] in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of [[Saul Alinsky]]-type social change to America. ''"In their estimation, it was to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of [[capitalism]] by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on economic collapse.'' "<ref>"The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue.[http://www.thenation.com/ Website]</ref> Following its publication, [[Liberalliberal]] activists like [[Barack Obama]] were attracted to the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called, and were eager to put it into effect. <ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7522 CLOWARD-PIVEN STRATEGY (CPS)]</ref>