the Nazi-German ideal of the post-war Wehrbauer (soldier-farmer) envisioned in Generalplan Ost is more or less the same thing as the midcentury American suburban ideal

Generalplan Ost never succeeded (thank God) and Ozzie & Harriet-style domesticity dissolved pretty quickly, but the physical reality of suburban life is the still default for 80% of people in North America

it took 11 million men and women of the Red Army fighting and dying for years to keep Generalplan Ost on paper, imagine what it will take to alter or abolish the reality of The American Suburb

it's not an interesting or new observation but the American Suburb really is a physical manifestation of American-ness, the settler-colonial ideology, racism, , and all that

and that's not a coincidence or like a convergence of unconscious choices over a long period of time, it is the product of about 80 years of central-planning by every organ of the bourgeois state apparatus

Herbert Hoover didn't want to legalize unions or create a federal unemployment fund, but he did want the government to subsidize homeownership by creating a national mortgage market - "A man who owns his own home will never be a Bolshevik,"

We need a good Marxist theorist out there to write a diamat/histmat critique of THE COLOR OF LAW ( https://bit.ly/3elswZh )