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<DIV><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Mike B:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>"How about dispersal of the means of
production and rationally planned<BR>production for use and need with a view
towards beauty while "living in<BR>harmony with the Earth". Salmon in the
Thames!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.</FONT></DIV>
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