Frances Fox Piven is a prominent U.S. sociologist, writer and socialist activist and is an honorary chair of the
Democratic Socialists of America.
Fox Piven was a DSAer since the organization's founding in 1982. By 1985 she was listed as a member of the Feminist Commission of the organization.
In 1994 she was listed amongst over 100 activists who were builders of
Barack Obama's New Party. Piven is also listed as an endorser of
Progressives for Obama.
But much earlier, at the
Second Annual Socialist Scholars Conference , held September 9-11, 1966 at the Hotel Commodore, New York, the husband/wife team,
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven unveiled their strategy to bring about the agenda they so longed for. This strategy is now known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy. In a nutshell, the strategy is designed to crash the U.S. economy and bring on socialist revolution by deliberately overloading state welfare rolls to the point of bankruptcy. You can read an in-depth discussion of this anti-American strategy in my
June 2011 post, here.
As I pointed out in September this year, Piven has
advocated the use of violence as a political tool as late as November, 2004 when she spoke at the University of Wisconsin, stating:
"Unless you have good reason for breaking the window [i.e. using violence],
probably you shouldn't do that. Unless it's you know, a big part of your strategy."On September 20, 2010, she spoke alongside Tariq Ali at the booklaunch for his new book entitled
"The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad". Ali is a board member of
Movement for a Democratic Society which has close ties with the newly revived
Students for a Democratic Society. The organization seeks to create a more egalitarian society in both the political and economic spheres. The booklaunch was organized and hosted by the Brecht Forum.
A short excerpt from Piven's comments at the book launch is below.
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