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The future of tribalism

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Cultural Crisis of the First Suburb

The first suburb in America was designed to be an anti-community community. The goal at the time was to keep veterans from organizing themselves into unions. If you're stuck in a suburb alone and isolated, you're too busy with the capitalist grind to become a communist. So you can't own a house and become a communist because you have too much shit to do. That's really what the suburbs are and have always been.

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