I honestly don’t think this is so correct. Maybe there’s a marginal increase of socialists in urban areas (which I’d be more inclined to attribute to access to university education) than rural areas. I do think urban areas where people interact with a variety of people are significantly more likely to have good takes on social issues, but mostly just end up being a lib instead of a lib

Get to know your coworkers

Community outside work is important too ofc, but getting to know your coworkers is the first step if you want to organize. And you might discover that you work with some cool people!

Memory of a lot of people during BLM that were committed to revolutionary burning of cop stations on paper but very wary of leaving the house to meet people at protests.

In Capitalist America, a protracted people’s war starts from the radicalized cities and expands towards the reactionary countryside.

One of things I realized going back home is just how much of a bubble suburbanites are in. I mean I always knew this ever since I moved out of the suburbs, but it started to dawn on me how that warps your political conscious.

For example how am I supposed to convince a suburbanite that homeless is not just a natural outcome of laziness but a conscious choice by the capitalist system? These people see a homeless person maybe once in a year. They are just so far removed from how the capitalist system fails people. And it’s so easy to get them to be hostile towards immigrants because they are in this bubble where the status quo must be preserved forever and anything that challenges that is bad.

I realized that you can’t really reason with them because they are in this bubble and you are speaking a different language than them when you talk about reality.

I’d be interested if anyone has done any marxist analysis on suburban/urban/rural living conditions and what can be done about it, cause it just seems hopeless

Actually, socialism is when you

I totally get where you’re coming from OP, but bear in mind that as stupid as this may sound…touching grass is a privilege in the cool zone.

You’re right that cities are awesome, but no one knows this better than rich people: hence why they decided living in a city should be a luxury and all us poors have to fuck off to the suburbs in bumfuck nowhere. It’s a lighter, more subtle form of ghettoization and ghettos are a breeding ground for useful idiots for reactionaries. I say this as someone who’s never been able to leave the sticks. While it may not be nearly as violent as good ol’ fashioned ghettoization, but suburbs do have their negative impacts on the working class who call it home: absolute isolation, nonexistent community, promotes consumerism, car dependency, and not only is it a “jobs desert”. It also serves as a “culture desert”. The sticks are just that soullessly boring and you end up missing out on some really good experiences.

TL;DR: I agree with your main idea, but remember that porky REALLY doesn’t want you or me touching grass. I should write an effortpost about this tbh