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"'''"Town and country''' appears in Haz's streams through the Communist Manifesto's planks and their 21st-century transformation. | |||
== | == From the streams == | ||
* | * Reading the Manifesto ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/2d1ebdec-de63-4a81-be9d-17a254901bc5/ RED PILL NEWS | FREE PALESTINE stream]): "Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all distinction between town and country... by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country" — read against coastal-vs-flyover America: "It's the opposite of that." | ||
* | * The update ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/598e6c70-1af9-4763-b2b6-8c96a3f49c0f/ SUPREMACY stream]): "There are new geographical terminologies in the 21st century. We're not living in the 1900s where it was farmers versus city folk — everyone is city folk now. But the same contradictions within town and country re-emerge on top of this postmodern post-urban civilization. The pink-haired barista is slated to become the despairing old working-class American in a trailer park. They're not prepared for that future yet. People think we're reactionary trying to preserve the old way of life..." | ||
== | == The thesis == | ||
The town-country antagonism hasn't been abolished but '''internalized''': precarity cycles everyone through both poles. Infrared's politics addresses those being ground through the cycle — not the preservation of either pole ([[Class]], [[Housing crisis]]). | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[New Deal]] | |||
* [[World Land Bridge]] | * [[World Land Bridge]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Marxism]][[Category:Economics]] | [[Category:Marxism]][[Category:Economics]][[Category:American politics]] | ||
Revision as of 10:10, 21 August 2026
""Town and country appears in Haz's streams through the Communist Manifesto's planks and their 21st-century transformation.
From the streams
- Reading the Manifesto (RED PILL NEWS | FREE PALESTINE stream): "Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all distinction between town and country... by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country" — read against coastal-vs-flyover America: "It's the opposite of that."
- The update (SUPREMACY stream): "There are new geographical terminologies in the 21st century. We're not living in the 1900s where it was farmers versus city folk — everyone is city folk now. But the same contradictions within town and country re-emerge on top of this postmodern post-urban civilization. The pink-haired barista is slated to become the despairing old working-class American in a trailer park. They're not prepared for that future yet. People think we're reactionary trying to preserve the old way of life..."
The thesis
The town-country antagonism hasn't been abolished but internalized: precarity cycles everyone through both poles. Infrared's politics addresses those being ground through the cycle — not the preservation of either pole (Class, Housing crisis).