Abolisyonista on Nostr: Saw another frustrating take from a National Democrat, this time saying that urban ...
Saw another frustrating take from a National Democrat, this time saying that urban overcrowding can be solved through agrarian reform. So the logic goes, if agrarian reform develops the countryside, people don’t need to leave the rural for the urban.
(1) Urbanization is a largely inevitable process of capitalist development, regardless of agrarian reform.
(2) There is no provable link between agrarian reform and urbanization. Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam all underwent comprehensive agrarian reform programs and they all still experienced massive waves of urbanization.
(3) Marx and Engels long noted that capitalist development creates a divide between town and country. Only either a civilizational collapse (to the likes of the Bronze Age Collapse or the collapse of the Western Roman Empire) or communist/anarchist revolution that abolishes the antithesis between town and country can provide the basis for de-urbanization.
(1) Urbanization is a largely inevitable process of capitalist development, regardless of agrarian reform.
(2) There is no provable link between agrarian reform and urbanization. Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam all underwent comprehensive agrarian reform programs and they all still experienced massive waves of urbanization.
(3) Marx and Engels long noted that capitalist development creates a divide between town and country. Only either a civilizational collapse (to the likes of the Bronze Age Collapse or the collapse of the Western Roman Empire) or communist/anarchist revolution that abolishes the antithesis between town and country can provide the basis for de-urbanization.