Cities are Reactionary

"In cities it is only possible to live by the rules of the past, in cities the past is collected and shown for all to see: churches, architectural constructions of the 19th century – all suggest inequality and servitude…and the suburbs – monstrous in their ant-bee essence, concrete-honeycombs, in the mornings vomiting their human stuffing and in the evening taking it back inside – the new serfdom."

The city is the concentration of political and economic power. Cities are parasitic, they are centers of pollution and the ecological murder of the planet.

In the capital all systems of overpowering of the citizens are concentrated: all kinds of polices, special services, systems of administrative control, political power of the country and its economic power – the banks.

The Khmer Rouge took revolution seriously: they liquidated the city. If it is not liquidated, the revolution will be reduced to the poor moving in to rich districts and the rich forced into the poor.

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Cities are the place the primitive bonds of tribal and family allegiance were first superseded, a place where humans could interact with each other on a base of shared humanity and citizenship, where they could form bonds of free association and universal rights rather than bonds of blood. The city is the basis for any coherent movement which seeks to embrace reason and community. Rejecting it, or allowing it to grow into an anonymous alienated megalopolis, are both harmful to human progress.
Furthermore, your loathing for humans is merely liberal ideology which obfuscates the true cause of the environmental catastrophe - the domination of nature by capitalist interests - and replaces it with general misanthropy which places the blame on individuals merely existing. It is reactionary, unrealistic nonsense which will not help us solve the ecological crisis.

Just because something happens somewhere doesn't make somewhere something. Is America islamist because islamists have attacked there? No?

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Depopulation (fewer people = fewer cities) and Agrarian Urbanism (Garden Cities) are the solution.

good post

also OP where is this from?

It's an adapted quote from the shitty english translation of Limonov's Other Russia - the NBP manifesto he wrote in prison. It's not a particularly serious book.

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Then why don't you get out of the city? You don't have to live there you know.

They were also fucking dumb, and killed random people wearing glasses because potentially being an intellectual was "reactionary" according to Pol Pot.
Marx didn't devised and diffused his theories in random German villages populated by peasants, but in big European cities like London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Cologne, where the industrial revolution was relevant and literally creating the proletariat.
Peasantry has always been mostly reactionary by the way. Villagers are attached to their traditions, and they have nothing against private property.
OP needs to read the Situationists. A city could be built as a giant playground for everyone to experiment with our senses and create situations, but their architecture reflects instead the interests of capitalist system we are living in now.
No one can live comfortably in London anymore if they aren't a banker or something like that, for example. Even liberals now start to complain about this because the financial elites are killing the culture and the fun of the city.
I mean, it's sad to see the contemporary Paris as a expensive place where stressed and depressed workers come to work from the suburbs and don't have the time to do anything else, in contrast to the more intellectually stimulating and lively Paris of the Belle Époque.
Instead of annihilating the city, we should get it back from the capitalist elite and transform it.