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I don't disagree, but i don't like how you make out socialism as the villain, sounds like you grew up with a lot of cold war propaganda. The absence of socialism means violence and war. If the states had a working social system, crime rates would be much lower. Personally I like to blame humanism for everything, that is, the delusion that humans are somehow better than what we really are.



I don't disagree that some degree of social policy is needed for a country to be healthy. Brutalism, though, was the blind application of the socialist principles to architecture, which generated more misery than what it tried to prevent.


So maybe it was the blind (I'd say ignorant, grandiose, paternalistic) application, and not the principles, that caused the misery?

Btw, I'm neither a socialist or proponent of modern architecture. Will call those out for their bs anytime too.




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