[lbo-talk] What is socialism?

[Eric Beck]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:05 AM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Actually, the reverse migration from factories to the land in the 19th century is documented. And that's not alienated urbanites.
>
> But, again, what does it prove that alienated urbanites want to farm?

Yeah, I'm not sure why this conversation has to happen on the level of
dime-store sociology. People move from farm to factory to office to
(wherever) because wage labor sucks ass. Trying to escape it, however
futile and delusional the effort might be, makes a hell of a lot of
sense.