I could see removing smaller buildings and replacing them with more greenery, and maybe building some sort of self sufficient sky scrapers in a wilderness of food forests that used to be monoculture. However, I don’t think it’s practical or necessary to remove existing urban infrastructure and build vastly more across all wilderness. In addition vertical farms and forests can be made in cities, so again not exactly necessary. Obviously we should make sure rural people have everything they need within biking distance, but we don’t need to take it to the absolute extreme.
At Engels’ time, rural communities were largely peasants who produced for themselves and sold the excess. This condition is largely shared through family, in which the children inherit from their parents, and it’s still the case for many rural communities nowadays, but not all.
Ending the contradiction between rural and urban populations, as I see it, means decentralizing the production of food from rural areas, and improving the livelihood and conditions of the rural population so that they have similar opportunities to the urban population
Makes sense, of course material conditions have changed a bit since his time.
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