suburbia

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:

> Even from a long range perspective, eliminating the difference between
> city and country means industrializing (citifying) the country as well
> as 'ruralizing' the city.

Sorta sounds like the American suburb, which is hardly a
prefiguration of utopia in any social or ecological sense. Is there
some compelling reason, other than the fact that Marx & Engels urged
it, to do this?

Doug