Marx and Idiocy of rural life

[SunshineCinderella]

Maybe good 'ole Karl wanted everyone in the crowded cities so they'd be easier to intimidate and control.

[klaucka]

Originally Posted by Milky Way Resident

That’s mostly true because of the environment they inhabit. City life is more competitive than rural life. When you’ve got so many people competing for limited positions, you need to be able to sell yourself.

I am not sure, aren't there more jobs in the cities? I would generally agree though that people that live in rural areas are less concerned with materialism and getting ahead in their career.

[recycled]

The best known monument in the city where I currently live is this relic of "socialist realism art" from when it was called Karl-Marx-Stadt (1953 to 1990). I have yet to meet anyone here in Chemnitz who calls themselves a Marxist, but I'm sure there are a handful to be found. There is also a brewery called Marx Staedtler (Marx City Brewery), but the beer is not as good as the three other big regional breweries.

The side of the building has a multi-story high plaque behind Marx that reads in many languages "Proletarians of all lands, Unite!"



Ironically, the city tax collection office is located on the ground floor of the building, almost right behind the bust of Marx.

[HJ99]

Originally Posted by Milky Way Resident

That’s mostly true because of the environment they inhabit. City life is more competitive than rural life. When you’ve got so many people competing for limited positions, you need to be able to sell yourself.

Try buying farmland to start out your farming venture! Tell me thats not competitive! It was different in pioneer days with all that vacant undeveloped land stolen from the Indians. They wanted to settle it and so GAVE AWAY FREE land to those that would settle on it and "improve" it.

Also for some time now the farm kids with the brains went off to college and usually didnt return to the farm. Once you sell off the family farm, very few make enough money in the city to ever buy it back. So much for brains. Short term thinking abounds in human society.

[HJ99]

Originally Posted by klaucka

I am not sure, aren't there more jobs in the cities? I would generally agree though that people that live in rural areas are less concerned with materialism and getting ahead in their career.

Go buy even a 160A farm for cash then. Believe me they dont GIVE it away. Anymore even scrub land considered recreational only, goes for insane amounts money considering it could never produce enough of anything to pay for itself. In past rural land was priced commensurate with how productive it was. Only rural land sold near big cities did the view matter. And speculation some developer would want it.