The theory here, to force change through chaos, was among the most provocative of the 1960s.
The discrepancy is not an accident stemming from bureaucratic inefficiency; rather, it is an integral feature of the welfare system which, if challenged, would precipitate a profound financial and political crisis. The force for that challenge, and the strategy we propose, is a massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls. From the Monday, May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation
The problem with all this is that what WikiLeaks has done was nothing different than what The New York Times and The Washington Post has done.
Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven
Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler
The Wealth of Networks
