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2010-12-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Pappy 2010-12-31 07:58|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Cloward-Piven, that weak minded duo, have several critical failures in their theory.

The first is the odd assumption that capitalism is a recent invention, slapped together by nefarious men in a slapdash manner, instead of a powerful and evolved means of mutual benefit across the economic spectrum.

The second is that the poor have chutzpah enough to demand entitlements and largess from the middle and upper classes. Revolutions do not start from the poor, but from the middle and upper classes. The poor just go along for the ride.

And the third bad assumption is that the middle and upper classes cannot squish the poor like insects if they become too pestiferous.

On top of that, they don't grasp perhaps the most important point, that if they push the welfare system to the breaking point, it is not capitalism that will be broken, but the welfare system.

That is, no more welfare. How revolutionary will the poor feel then?

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-31 10:03|| 2010-12-31 10:03|| Front Page Top

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