She was making fun of a specific development south of San Francisco. At the time, that suburb was not typical.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:12:04PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:
>
> > I always disliked Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes.... all made out of
> > ticky-tacky," etc., as contemptuous of people, including
> > suburbanites, who
> > live in those little boxes. I was therefore quite surprised in reading
> > Bettina Aptheker's excellent new memoir, Intimate Politics, to hear
> > that
> > Reynolds was a Communist. It had been my experience that Communists,
> > regardless of their other problems, did not insult potential
> > constituencies.
> > But there's no doubt that contempt for suburbia was very much a
> > part of the
> > New Left.
>
> Pete Seeger sang it too, and he was a Communist in some sense, no?
>
> I thought that part of the point of encouraging suburbanization was
> to break up the urban working class, and make it more atomized and
> conservative. Is that not true?
>
> Doug
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