Stalinism is when you can walk to a corner store to get a beer and your kids can walk to school without getting run over by some asshole in an SUV :chad-stalin:
"Look we can't possibly have bike lanes in OUR city until we have them everywhere" - Trotskyist Urbanist, probably
people didn't travel
People got a month of vacation per year standard and could freely travel to any part of the Eastern Bloc (granted going somewhere else required more paperwork, but was still achievable by the average Soviet citizen). The average American fucking dreams of traveling as much as the average Soviet could.
Vacationing in USSR: "no food" factory, shared toothbrush museum
Vacationing in U$A: Wally World but it's closed and you have a heated suburban dad moment :gun-shapiro:
When the big truck cuts off your suburban dad and now he booked the whole family to a night at the Mandalay Bay hotel
Plus, really extensive and relatively good passenger rail network
Source on that month-long vacation? Sounds incredible. Also explains why the rail network did so well despite not having any high-speed lines; more time for travel.
Pat Sloan wrote about it amongst many other things in Soviet Democracy
A month like 30 days or 4 weeks (28 days)? That is more than most US places got, right?
If you mean the average american at that time, I don't know, but a few years ago I worked at Target for over a year. Took as many shifts as they would give me (no one was full-time except the upper-level managers) and had only accrued around 8 hours of paid time off by the time I quit, because of their insanely long "probation" period. A lot of Americans don't understand the words "paid time off".
In Vietnam you get a whole week off and in a few places, the whole month off just for new years
being isolated is actually when you have to walk and interact with the people that live near you.
How do you isolate people by having them live in the same building?
Freedom means not seeing other people unless absolutely necessary. In suburban America, other people are a nuisance to be tolerated.
If you walk everywhere you want to go, you'll never travel far enough to see that you're in fact in a Truman Show dome.
I'm not isolated, I'm not isolated, I exclaim as I spend my days isolated in my car on my way to work from my isolated suburban dwelling
"I dun need a fancy walkable city. I'm a BIG BOY!"
lifestyle is a massive tax waste and subsidized by the so-called "undesirables" in the cities.
Not even that, as 15 minute cities are happening under capitalism, as they are the few times that some capitalists can see eye to eye with socialists on.
Anything that is abnormal is something to be feared to them, and we're the sheeple?
“During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. - :parenti-hands:
Is there any way we could fit this entire quote into an emote? It would save a lot of typing time around here
Would be lighter on the database too, I hear that's a problem round these parts
Making life convenient for your citizens is actually oppression.
Isolation is when you can hear your neighbors fucking on one side and yelling at each other on the other side and then you go to work shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of your fellow workers in a factory and then all go home to the same general area where you can mill about and squat and drink light beer and semechki and you're never alone at any point in your entire day
Uncanny my aunt did mention that exact talking point (the 15 minute city being design as prison where one isn't allowed to leave instead of it being actually freeing compared to how car cities are). It is also absurd since she actually doesn't go to any places more than 15 minutes away for weeks on end.
It's not. This is a legitimate new Guy Type. They were protesting near me recently.
Capitalism and reaction really has broken the western brain :desolate:
