Mike B: "How about dispersal of the means of production and rationally planned production for use and need with a view towards beauty while "living in harmony with the Earth". Salmon in the Thames!"
Marx, Engels, Wm. Morris, Kautsky, Lenin, Trotsky all agreed, the socialist policy on towns and countryside is the abolition of the antagonism between them. The town would become more like the country - interspersed with wide open spaces, and the country would become more like the town, well served by modern communications and lighting. Theirs was in fact a policy for dispersed living. Being champions of the working class, they sought to overthrow the evil of high densitiy dwelling, or what used to be known as overcrowding. In particular they opposed the assertion of a monopoly over land, whether by the gentry, or by the state. The policy of maintaining the artificial division between town and country (the essence of the UK 1948 Town and Country Planning Act) was a way of ensuring the reproduction of a proletariat alienated from the land, with no alternative but wage slavery.
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