Posts Tagged ‘gentrification’

“One day I walked with one of these middle-class gentlemen into Manchester. I spoke to him about the disgraceful unhealthy slums and drew his attnetion to the disgusting conditions of that part of town in which the factory workers lived.

I declared that I had never seen so badly built a town in my life.
He listened patiently and at the corner of the street at which we parted company he remarked:

‘And yet there is a good deal of money made here. Good morning, Sir.'”– Friedrich Engels, THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND.


“The dreaming collective knows no history” — Walter Benjamin.