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News18
29-07-2025
- Politics
- News18
How Wokes Are Deploying Cloward-Piven Strategy To Create Anarchy
Last Updated: After sowing the seeds of anarchy and chaos in the developed West, the wokes are now moving towards democracies like India and other countries of the global South. The United States might win some of the tariff battles but it is all set to lose the larger economic war because of the complete surrender of the American corporations to the leftist-woke ideology. These are the lessons that every democracy needs to learn including India. New York Post journalist Charles Gasparino talked about this 'noxious ideology of progressive politics in the boardroom" in his 2024 book Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside story of Corporate Radicalization in America. This is an ideology, he says, that 'needs to die a thousand deaths." 'The left-wing forces have assembled to transform Corporate America into something resembling the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. The left might hate capitalism but it has been busy implementing capitalist tools to bend big business at will," adds Gasparino. Abhijit Joag has dwelt on this issue in detail in his seminal work, Termites: How the Left is Destroying the World through Subversion, exposing how wokes are globally coordinating to destroy the corporate economy in the democratic world. And whatever tariff wars a country may win or lose, all the gains will be ultimately swept away. According to Joag (pp. 230), in the name of social justice, neo-Marxists are conducting audits of company boards to find out whether adequate representation has been given to 'protected groups' like Blacks, Minorities and the LGBTQ, and are pressurising corporates to increase this representation. Behind this seemingly noble cause, the Left wants to promote identity conflict within the corporate sector and subvert it from within. 'Woke consultants conduct Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Audit of corporates and rank them on 'social conduct'. Legal suits are filed against those with poor ranks. This way wokeism has monopolised the right to distribute character certificates to corporates and publish those who do not fall in line.' Cloward-Piven Strategy Joag interestingly goes back to the 1960s and helps us recall the Cloward-Piven Strategy which is in full display now not only in the US but is being replicated in most of the liberal democracies and civilisational states including India. A neo-Marxist couple, Francis Pox Piven, a Professor in Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York, and her husband Richard Cloward, published a paper on May 2, 1966 that detailed out a strategy to engineer a huge crisis in the US economy, which would augur the way for Communism. This is known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy. The idea behind this strategy is to overload the welfare system excessively by discouraging people to work and encouraging them to enjoy freebies. This would ultimately lead to collapse of the system. The key elements: of this strategy are mobilising the marginalised sections of the society to demand their 'rightful" benefits from the government, and then overloading the welfare system through mass enrolment. Cloward and Piven argued that this would create a political crisis that could only be resolved by implementing more 'progressive policies' which actually meant paving the way for Marxist or Communist regime. If you remember the riots and violent protests by so-called pro-Palestine supporters over the last couple of years and the anti-farm laws and anti-CAA protests of the 'wokes' and 'Islamists' in India, you should match the script with the prose of the 1967 book by Cloward and Piven: The Breaking of American Social Compact. The book advocates the use of 'Disruptive Protest' to push their demands. By disruptive protest, they mean, 'incendiarism, riots, sit-ins and other forms of civil disobedience, great surges in demand for relief benefits, rent strikes, wild cat strikes, obstructing production on assembly lines". The goal is to 'weaken the regime'. When the regime is vulnerable and insecure it is more likely to bargain and compromise. Cloward and Piven say social movements thrive on conflict. So, where there is no conflict, the wokes will have to create one. The fact that this paper came in 1966 followed by the book as mentioned above is evidence of how Marxists have penetrated the capitalist systems since the 1960s and arguably much before. In a nutshell, there are four steps of the Cloward-Piven strategy: Overload and break the welfare system; create anarchy and chaos; take control of the situation; implement socialism and communism to establish a new order. It is clear that the sustained pressure of the left is forcing creation of gigantic welfare states across the world. Welfare schemes are seen as entitlements now even in the developed economies and the same is happening in emerging economies too especially wherever there are democratic regimes. This has led to an increasing pressure of debt on the economies. In an increasingly fragmented global economic order, this has added to the fragility of the nation states especially the US and the West. top videos View all After sowing the seeds of anarchy and chaos in the developed West, the wokes are now moving towards democracies like India and other countries of the global South. What we need is a collective will and effort to fight these dark forces both at the domestic as well as at the global level. The writer is an author and a columnist. His X handle is @ArunAnandLive. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely those of the author. 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New York Post
27-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
The fight for liberty starts in the classroom — how one state is joining the battle
The purpose of public education in America was never just to teach basic literacy or vocational skills — it was to shape citizens capable of sustaining a free republic. Thomas Jefferson, the most forceful advocate for public education among the Founders, argued that knowledge was the first line of defense against tyranny. 'Educate and inform the whole mass of the people,' he wrote, 'They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' Advertisement Today, that mission has been betrayed. Instead of teaching students to resist despotism and preserve liberty, much of our education system has been captured by ideologues who program young people against our country's history and principles — causing disaster in our colleges and our streets. Advertisement It is the duty of every free citizen who cares about our country to stand against this perversion of our educational system. After communism's economic collapse, Marxist theorists didn't disappear, but simply changed strategies. Instead of class warfare between workers and owners, today's neo-Marxists divide society along cultural and identity lines: race, gender, sexuality. They've successfully infiltrated key institutions — universities, corporations and government agencies — where they now push radical theories that paint America as inherently oppressive. Advertisement The tactics are more subtle than those of the old Soviet Union, but the ideology remains just as hostile to individual liberty and the merit-based values that built American prosperity. Over decades, Marxist theorists recast education as a form of political activism. Their influence can be seen clearly in the rise of critical race theory within school curricula. In 2021, the head of Detroit's public schools admitted: 'Our curriculum is deeply using critical race theory, especially in social studies, but you'll find it in English language arts and the other disciplines. We were very intentional about embedding it.' Advertisement Yet our students are taught little to nothing about Mao's China, where over a million landlords were slaughtered and forced collectivization triggered the deadliest famine in history — so extreme that desperate families resorted to cannibalism. Up to 55 million people perished, a death toll larger than the combined populations of Florida and Texas. How many students ever hear about how Stalin's communists seized Ukrainian farmers' food, leaving millions to die gnawing on tree bark and grass? Or about North Korea's modern gulags, where prisoners lose limbs to frostbite after grueling 16-hour shifts on starvation rations? No: Instead of exposing atrocities, schools sanitize communism, repackaging it in euphemisms like 'equity' and 'social justice.' But history shows what those words meant in practice: in China, for instance, 'equity' meant dividing up food from seized farms equally, destroying incentives and causing famine. To Mao's Red Guards, 'social justice' meant making family members torture each other in 'struggle sessions.' If students were taught that this — and not free health care and housing in Scandinavia — is socialism, would they still sympathize with Marxist ideas? Advertisement Keep up with today's most important news Stay up on the very latest with Evening Update. Thanks for signing up! Enter your email address Please provide a valid email address. By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Never miss a story. Check out more newsletters Moreover, we can't just teach students about gulags and famines, but also about the evolution of communist ideas to the present day. That will arm them with the knowledge and critical judgment to resist passively accepting whatever some future sociology professor tells them. That's why we're proud to have helped create and fund 'Liberty Over Communism,' a new high school program produced by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Advertisement This comprehensive curriculum — combining historical analysis, survivor testimonies and modern-day applications — is teaching students both the brutal realities of communism and how its ideas have morphed into seemingly benign modern movements. Nothing in our Constitution requires taxpayers to fund communist indoctrination in our schools. But many schools and teachers are unlikely to teach this material voluntarily — and some even sympathize with these destructive ideologies. So legislation is essential. Lawmakers in Texas — led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Sen. Donna Campbell and Rep. Jeff Leach — recently passed a bill I'm proud to have helped develop through the Cicero Institute. Advertisement It requires Texas schools to teach the truth about communism: the mass killings, the famines, the propaganda, and how those same ideas are showing up today under new, attractive branding. Students, starting in 4th grade, will learn how communist regimes crushed freedom — and how those tactics are still being used to silence dissent and push collectivist ideologies in America. And they won't just learn the 20th-century history: The bill requires content about current-day threats to the United States and its allies posed by communist regimes and activists, the evolution of communism from economic and class-based theories into broader cultural movements dividing our society, and modern methods used to spread them. Advertisement The battle for liberty begins at home — and in the classroom. As Jefferson warned, no nation can remain simultaneously ignorant and free. Joe Lonsdale is the co-founder of Palantir and managing partner of 8VC. Adapted from the Joe Lonsdale Substack.
