Residential complex Denis Romodin "House of the new life" (now a dormitory for post-graduate students of Moscow State University)
Ground floor plan
1 - greenhouse; 2 - Swimming Pool; 3 - dining room with 150 seats; 4 - kitchen; 5 - a winter garden, the foyer; 6 - house-kitchen; 7 - the universal use of the hall; 8 - music room; 9 - Kruzhkova room; 10 - wardrobe; 11 - administrative and economic center; 12 - Catering; 13 - sports hall; 14 - Technology Club; 15 - center of health care; 16 - Children's Center. Click Here
Despite its potential benefits, communal living does not appear to be very attractive anywhere. Why is this? Is it because there are a few examples of the happy family home and many more imaginary ones, nurtured by literature and television? Is it the memory of primitive conditions in hippie and early Soviet communes? Is the tribe the natural arrangement for humans, existing for thousands of years in pre-history, or is it a form to be transcended according to the progressive view of humanity? Even in 19th century communitarian societies of the United States there was a tendency for couples to move away from collective provision into individual households, although the members had voluntarily joined as communards.
Some critics of Soviet communalism claim that its real purpose was to free women for work in the "productive" sector, rather than liberating them for self-fulfillment or promoting their equality.
Jeff's Question: #12: On Counterpunch, you wrote a great article, What Else Is Wrong with Globalization. Click Here
I was like 99% of humanity and swallowed the GATT/WTO/NAFTA/EU propaganda Kool-Aid.
It really has turned out to be at the vanguard of destroying our Pale Blue Dot: cut flowers shipped from Kenya to the EU in airconditioned jets, Thailand bringing in huge papayas from hot houses in Hollande, Caribbean countries being forced to sell passports and villas to rich foreigners, instead of bananas; there are thousands of similar cases, ongoing. This, not to mention chemically soaked GMO monoculture agriculture, mono-industrial economies and modern-day slaves getting paid pennies a day to die young.
Yet, Mexico just signed a new NAFTA deal with the USA and Canada, even though the first one destroyed much of its centuries' old Native economy and culture.
Why?
Only a handful of countries seem to have thrived under global capitalism's WTO: China, South Korea, Vietnam and a few others that have exported their way towards broad citizen prosperity.
How to stop all this madness? The French voted down the ultra-neoliberal European Treaty (EUT) twice, only to have its corrupt legislature pass it in the middle of the night, over their popular objections. As a result, everything in France is being privatized and the EUT excludes any government ownership or economic planning in their phony "free markets".
How to end this madness, kill the WTO and save the human race?
Joan's Answer #12:
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