My great uncle was an ardent anti-communist. He fought against communists in the Spanish Civil War, and in the Greek Civil War. He'd said many times that the only thing evil on God's Earth were communists. I also remember him saying he can meet his Maker with a clear conscience because he never cheated on his wife with a woman more attractive than her, and he never harmed his fellow man, only communists.
After the wars, he became an engineering professor in the 60's and 70's. He told me of his colleagues who had a plan to turn the US socialist. It had three parts.
Part 1 was to encourage massive amounts of people to get welfare benefits.
Part 2 was for the government to become bankrupt from paying for welfare benefits for such a large amount of people.
Part 3 was for the masses who now could not provide for themselves to overthrow the current US government in favor for a social welfare state which would be run by these academics.
My uncle told me more details of this plan, such as encouraging migration to the US by offering migrants generous social services hence increasing the masses dependent on the state, advocating for universal basic income, and creating a divide among the mostly white middle class (paying taxes) and minority populations in the US (consuming social services in this case).
He told me about this 30 years ago.
Two questions for historians
You are reffering to Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, both of the Columbia University School of Social Work.
Also research George Wiley, and the National Welfare Rights Organization, which later became ACORN/SEIU/The "Working Families" Party. Wiley's stated goal was to sign so many people on welfare and support, that it would cause the economy to crash, at which time the Federal Government and Constitution could be overthrown, and a new Communist/Socialist Government could rise in it's place.