Dialectic of Town and City
""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).