It’s a well known fact that suburbia, especially American suburbia and the associated “American Dream” ideology with its imperative to own your own home as a sort of cultural value, is a bit of social engineering by the American state to convert class conscious proles into reactionary petit bourgeoisie and maintain a core of reaction in American politics. There is a question of what to do about the suburbanites, since home ownership is sort of a cultural value now and engaging in it isn’t always a sign of reactionary petit booj ideology (though the demographic does lean pretty hard reactionary). I think there’s a pretty straightforward answer to this. Simply take suburban residential areas into public ownership, but with respect for residency rights. In other words, they won’t have to pay another dime on the mortgage or in property taxes and it’s still “theirs” as the resident, but they can no longer sell the property and when they move out they forfeit it, either to the next resident or to be knocked down and reclaimed by the community for another purpose.
To the petit bourgeois reactionary who views the property as an “investment”, this will be an outrage, but to the prole, who only saw it as a residency, this will be a great boon. Thus, we’ll have sorted the wheat from the chaff in a single stroke and can act accordingly.
Good idea. However I don't think it could ever be put into practice without a straight up revolution. Amerifats love their disgusting mini castles.
David Thompson
Man, suburbia look worse than USSR industrial cities
Evan Johnson
The superstructure parts aren't why we should empty the suburbs like Democratic Kampuchea emptied the cities, their reliance on cheap oil is, they're literally destroying the world.
Brody Jenkins
Yeah a lot of these "homes" are more than 30 minutes from where their residents actually work. I currently have a couple of coworkers who live more than 60 miles from where our office is. They spend 4 hours every day just driving to and from work. It's ridiculous. If oil prices shot up they would be completely fucked (and that would be a good thing.)
Alexander Martin
If we want to have any hope of keeping the world from flooding, population centralization in the West with a capital "W" is going to be the first step. Every suburb should be turned into forest, a long with greening our deserts.
Jayden Stewart
Wall them off, throw the reactionaries in there and let them attempt to live their mythical 50s Smalltown, USA paradise. Much more humane than gulags, and even attractive to its would-be occupants. Hell, they might volunteer to be thrown in. The Suburbia Archipelago.
That’s a part of the point. Get the petit bourgeoisie to revolt to justify a crackdown.
Lincoln Martinez
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Carson Perez
Perfect idea. When do we start? We could even prop up their little paradise and they can live there in peace all they like. But the moment they come too close to a wall they get their head blown off.
How does the faggot known as OP reconcile being a broke fuck with imagining he's smart? Are you even cognizant that your larpy spiel is verbatim some jew a century ago? You truly have no idea how anything works. Even in theory it doesn't work you fucking mug.
Give them more land. Demolish half of houses, and give everyone a garden he can use to plant a few trees or have a sheep. Demolish a few more, and add infrastructure people need (schools, grocery stores and so on) within walking distance. Improve public transportation to the point it would be more comfortable to use than cars. There are so many interesting ways a good architect could transform such places.
1st pic gives me anxiety. Navigating that would be horrifically disorienting. You'd need to give them work to do or they'd go insane and murder each other.
This layout is actually pretty decent if it was repurposed into a socialist community.
