Re: Economics and law

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> Mainly that was me writing off the cuff while trying to meet a deadline and working through a hangover. It would be better to say something like "the shape of Soviet society was determined first and foremost by the need to develop an agrarian country. It succeeded. The rest of the stuff is fluff."<   Comment   Soviet housing pattern - communal apartments, and the need to provide living quarters in the context of this massive and rapid industrialization of the country - the shift from agriculture to industry . . .  has a rough equivalent to aspects of the housing pattern in America.   I believe it was in Detroit that the large government sponsored housing project called the Jefferson Projects  . . . was created to meet the demand for housing under the Roosevelt administration. Eleanor Roosevelt officiated at the opening of this housing complex.   The Jefferson Project contained 14 story high rises - 6 stories and 3 stories, and met the demands for housing of a population shifting on the basis of the mechanization of agricultural and servicing the boom bust cycles of the auto industry. There were several such housing projects in Detroit, although not as massive as the Jefferies Project. In fact Cabrina Green in Chicago is such a projects and one can find such communal  quarters in perhaps every major city in America.   In general housing pattern shapes itself on the basis of industrial centers and the working people providing the labor. A certain dispersal of industry and downsizing affects housing pattern under capitalism and socialism. The specific character of the housing pattern . . . meaning the pecking order . . . is another matter. The last "race riot" in Detroit during the Second Imperial World War era was actually ignited over housing . . . back in 1943 . . . if memory serves me correct.   Dad took us out of the Jefferies Project in the early 1960s when his employment with the Ford Motor Company stabilized. Interestingly . . . this same Project is being looked at today as luxury apartments for the wealthy.   I would pose the question as the housing pattern during the industrial era and the curve of its ascendency and decay . . . under capitalism and socialism. There is a growing and serious problem of homelessness in America but not a housing shortage as such with hundred of thousands on the waiting list for section 8 housing - welfare.   Oh . . . paying for water in America is the height of American bourgeois criminality. When the bourgeois mentality learns to effectively bottle fresh air and offer it for sell to the masses . . . in an affordable manner our ass is out. Did not a movie star . . . Woody Harrelson . . . open a fresh air bar . . . yep . . . you could come in and buy fresh air . . . a few years ago?   Melvin P.