Rudy v. Marxists --> is beauty for the wealthy

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> chuck0 -----------------
> sometimes these issues boil down to beauty in our lives. The rich get to
> surround themselves with beauty, whereas the poor and the working class
> have to deal with shit.
> 
> Of course, the Eugene anarchists once again are relevant here. They have
> deliberately started a campaign to "uglify" parts of Eugene that are
> undergoing gentrification, in an attempt to make the Yuppies unwelcome.
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alex lantsberg:
> doesn't this mean that the anarchists are in effect saying that poor people have
> no right to beauty in their neighborhoods and communities?

No -- they're apprehending the reality of the class war.
Whether their scorched-earth strategy is the best one is
certainly debatable, but no strategy and no action will almost
certainly result in the displacement of the poor from anything
they beautify.  That's what's going on in New York City's
Lower East Side right now, and a good many other places around
here.  The poor may have a theoretical right to beauty (and
safety) in their neighborhoods and communities, but it's not
enough of a right to keep them from being kicked out, or, at
best, relocated to anonymous Welfare tombstones someplace the
rich don't care to live.

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