Cloward and Piven were both professors at Columbia University at the time Obama was a “student at Columbia” - of course we can’t know if they were his professors because he sealed his college papers.
It seems like the parts of the strategy to create massive debt to the point of collapse is working, although it’s debatable how long they can keep kicking the can down the road with printing money and paying for it with inflation.
The part that doesn’t seem fully realized is the build-up of the welfare class and militarizing them once the welfare state collapses.
I think the democrats much prefer them to stay dependent on the government and thus remain a loyal voting block, and the chaos of collapsing it is too risky. The votes are predictable and safe. Riotous anarchy is not necessarily going to be controllable nor predictable.