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In this process, Marx saw the seeds of a society that would eventually be reduced to two classes—owners and workers.
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
“A neighbourhood is not only an association of buildings but also a network of social relationships, an environment where the feelings and the sympathy can flourish.” -
Jane Jacobs
Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 002: Community thrives through bustling neighbourhoods and casual chatter.
The entire works of Marx are permeated with a spirit incompatible with the vulgar materialism of Engels and Lenin. He never regards man as being a mere part of nature, but always as being at the same time, owing to the fact that he exercises a free activity, an antagonistic term vis-à-vis nature.
Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty
Matt Bluemink • From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future | Blue Labyrinths
This necessarily creates a dynamic web of interdependencies over built space and time, mediated by socioeconomic exchanges.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Karl Marx had a different view: that being occupied by good work was living well. Engagement in productive, purposeful work was the means by which people could realise their full potential.
The Economist • Why Do We Work So Hard?
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
citizen participation in planning and well understands that that can happen only at the neighborhood level.