American City Planners banked on the idea that people would always have cars, that no alternative was thought of. Lots of people scream “BUILD TRAINS” like the solution is as simple as that.
We need major land reform and a lot more people shifted from bullshit jobs to farm work. We already rely on migrant farm workers to grow the majority of our food and it's one of the most obscenely exploitative and brutal jobs in the US.
But late on a lot of that, many family struggled over the last 100 years and couldnt maintain their farms, farmer nowadays lease their land, equipment, or both to what ever factory farm interests they could get, who under pay them for the most part to make their money back on rental fees and such.
The idea of the farmer who own their land and equipment is drifting further and further from reality. So cant say for sure they can collectivize with all that
I mean just seize the land and give it to the farmers in a better oriented collective agreement and that they don't have to worry about buffer crops or bad seasons leading to bankruptcy
That's actually ripe conditions for collectivization. The serfs didn't own land, the peasantry was mostly landless and operating under sharecropping leases. This is just the reintroduction of the old feudal property relations under capitalism. Relations that have shown again and again to serve as fertile ground for revolutionary movement.
The American sharecroppers were revolutionary. As industrial farming kills off the moderately comfortable position that many farmers had and proletarianizes them, they too will slip into a more revolutionary position.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging, but Biden just signed a highway expansion bill disguised as an infrastructure bill, soooo
Or Bus Rapid Transit, while not as good as trains is miles ahead of using cars and only needs some relatively small adjustments to existing infrastructure.
Americans will rather pay $30k for a lemon than ride a train.
they don't really have a choice unless they live in NYC
Yea thats me. 20miles from nearest population center above 1k, 30~miles away from next similar sized city
American City Planners banked on the idea that people would always have cars, that no alternative was thought of. Lots of people scream “BUILD TRAINS” like the solution is as simple as that.
To fix this you have to restart the whole mess
You have to do what China did and massively build out urban infrastructure and subsidize urban housing to get people out of suburbs and rural towns.
Turn small family farms into centralized collectives with an urban district that has transportation out into the farms
We need major land reform and a lot more people shifted from bullshit jobs to farm work. We already rely on migrant farm workers to grow the majority of our food and it's one of the most obscenely exploitative and brutal jobs in the US.
But late on a lot of that, many family struggled over the last 100 years and couldnt maintain their farms, farmer nowadays lease their land, equipment, or both to what ever factory farm interests they could get, who under pay them for the most part to make their money back on rental fees and such.
The idea of the farmer who own their land and equipment is drifting further and further from reality. So cant say for sure they can collectivize with all that
I mean just seize the land and give it to the farmers in a better oriented collective agreement and that they don't have to worry about buffer crops or bad seasons leading to bankruptcy
In a just, sensible word, but that’s not how you spell America
You forget three Ks sir, Amerikkka
That's actually ripe conditions for collectivization. The serfs didn't own land, the peasantry was mostly landless and operating under sharecropping leases. This is just the reintroduction of the old feudal property relations under capitalism. Relations that have shown again and again to serve as fertile ground for revolutionary movement.
If there’s a spark, yes, but the serfs, funny enough wouldnt dream of hurting their lords to set themselves free
The Chinese ones did. And when serfdom was abolished, the poor peasantry became revolutionary as their subsistence was no longer assured.
It’s nice to see what the Chinese did, but we’re talking about America specifically, camel through a needle, etc, etc
The American sharecroppers were revolutionary. As industrial farming kills off the moderately comfortable position that many farmers had and proletarianizes them, they too will slip into a more revolutionary position.
When you find yourself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging, but Biden just signed a highway expansion bill disguised as an infrastructure bill, soooo
We’ve been run by hole salesman for generations
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Or Bus Rapid Transit, while not as good as trains is miles ahead of using cars and only needs some relatively small adjustments to existing infrastructure.
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We don't have any buses in my city.
Then can you really call it a city?
When I lived in Chicago I didn't need a car, that might be the only other American city where you can do that though.
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mfers in my city would rather pay 60 dollars for parking than take transit that drops them directly off at the stadiums, it is actually fucking wild.
Parking for Giants games in SF would go for over $100 when they were good.
It's a 5 minute walk to the stadium from the 4th and King Caltrain station, which runs extra service on game days.