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  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • Grownbravy [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      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

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        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

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        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.

        • Grownbravy [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          If there’s a spark, yes, but the serfs, funny enough wouldnt dream of hurting their lords to set themselves free

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            The Chinese ones did. And when serfdom was abolished, the poor peasantry became revolutionary as their subsistence was no longer assured.

            • Grownbravy [they/them]
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              3 years ago

              It’s nice to see what the Chinese did, but we’re talking about America specifically, camel through a needle, etc, etc

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                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.