As communists, we naturally concern ourselves with the movement, settlement, and overall conditions of the working classes. Problematically as much of our theory stems from late 19th and early 20th century literature, the way we conceive of both the proletariat and of revolution recalls the formation of the proletariat in those times. Thus, many of our comrades, including ourselves at various points, have often posited-or subconsciously maintained-the inner city as the ultimate contradiction, the home of the proletariat which will bubble over and produce those first gasps of communisation. Yet it has long been understood that American cities have hollowed themselves out over the last 50 years, proletarians being pushed out to settle elsewhere.
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