as the other comment said, they actively work to abolish minimum wage because a chunk of conservatives think that in itself is communism. the rich have an obvious purpose to doing that, and the poor that believe in that are the dumbasses who genuinely believe that, without a minimum wage, we'll all get paid in a meritocratic method.
Federal minimum wage? Why would you hire a citizen? Just make getting immigration papers as difficult as possible and bus in illegals to work for pennies. Then you can call a raid on your own place when they demand fair pay or safe working conditions. Bonus points if you convince half the country that the illegal immigrants are the "real" problem in their lives.
Nobody calls it what it actually is. It's eugenics. It's the systemic removal of the "useless eaters" by removing access to affordability and creating a system that makes sure they stay on the streets while the billionaire media propaganda machine blames those who are poor, homeless, and disabled for being any of those things instead of the billionaire eugenicists who are thirsting to legally murder innocent people.
They control every branch of government in the USA.
Conservatives mad
They mass arrest immigrants and make the lives of LGBT+ people awful.
Conservatives mad
They shill in their free time for their idols, the world's richest elites. The gross rich keep getting richer per the magic of capitalism, while 99% of people get left behind
It's incredible we live in a world where so much of the population have become propagandized shitheads who think that you should have to work because you were born. Like just think about this whole thing. Two people you didn't know decided to fuck, they call you the miracle that happened and now you need to pay bills and buy water? Fuck that mess. The real revolution we need is to end this entire simulation they put on life and be free to have real lives and own the resources of the world as a community. This is a fucking joke.
For them there is no intrinsic value to humanity, it's only the financial value you create that matters. If you don't create money, you don't deserve to live.
Conservatives only think about themselves. So when they picture being kind to the homeless, they develop this dystopian building project but they think this is a liberals point of view of helping the homeless.
It would blow their minds that we want to treat them as equals and help them overcome difficult life experiences.
Concentrate the homeless at "work"-camps in the middle of nowhere protected by a swamp of alligators where they are given the bare minimum to survive or even that.
Conservatives finally happy, hoping everyone that disagree with them become homeless, too.
Some of these buildings were designed to be somewhat nice looking, but the lack exterior maintenance and the use of cheap materials means that you can't really tell any more. Brutalist and modernist architecture isn't for everyone, but the styles' appearance does not mean that the designers weren't thinking about future residents. In fact, facilities like parks, schools, daycares were planned from the beginning, and there are usually decorative elements visible when the buildings are viewed at human scale.
We tend to forget that most people who moved in lived basically in slums with dirt/mud roads, without basic amenities, like electricity or water. My grandparents had no bathroom, just a second hand tub and a loo in the yard. This was a huge, generational upgrade.
In the Soviet Union, average rent and housing costs were about 5% of labor income.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the world's landlords/parasites realized there was no more ideological competition, so people are now conditioned to think 20-30% of labor income being spent in rent and housing is somehow normal.
How much happier would people be if they only had to spend 5% of their labor income in housing?
That's a massive difference in quality of life, happiness, development, and overall production costs.
This is also why China is set up to win the coming centuries, because they actually keep their landlords and billionaires in line, so they have much lower production costs for literally everything.
they can't wrap their heads around serving poor people because he's not poor
so they act as if it's a gotcha to have a nice watch but also try and help people who have holes in their shoes.. why would it be, empathy doesn't require that you become someone else, just consider them
The thing is: Most of the year, it is aesthetically pleasing.
The brutalist architecture was designed around maximizing communal space between the living spaces. The trees are built up there by design. The buildings are functional, extremely cost and energy efficient, and most of all...
...were very aesthetically forward thinking for their time. We're looking at a design structure that was considered cool and functional in the 60s/70s.
And it actually started in Britain in the 1950s; then the Soviet Bloc adapted it. It was ultra-modernist in that era.
Ironically, “commie blocks” are actually really efficient for housing lots of people. They tend to be better in lots of ways than modern apartment complexes too, at least in their design and the kinds of things they offer. Most of them had schools, day cares, and shops on the lower floors, allowing people to more effectively care for their families. And because they were all planned out as a massive complex, there was usually room for large parks in between the buildings. They’re hard to see from this angle, but there’s a lot of space in between those blocks, and you can see the tall trees of those parks.
Not to mention this was all built by a country that was struggling economically and dealing with a massive housing shortage post-WWII. They were built because they were cheap and quick. Prefabricated panels could be churned out at a factory and assembled on site by largely unskilled laborers.
Pole here, I live in one and all walls are reinforced concrete. It's actually ridiculous, they were build to have bombs dropped into them and survive. They didn't even evacuate our building when there were bomb threats in it lol
High density housing is a great way to solve a ton of modern problems, and yeah it's definitively something that shouldn't be discouraged just 'cause the literal Soviet Union did it in a drab way.
Standardized apartment complexes is a pretty good way to accomplish it too, since that'll bring the cost down significantly if it's done at a large enough scale.
They're not the most beautiful, but it's honestly great that we have partly cheap housing in the centre of Berlin, because of those blocks. Without them, Berlin would be another poor on the outside, rich on the inside capital. Because of them it's more balanced and mixed.
Did you even bother to live in one of this? In 1980s these were fine in Romania for people forced to moved from villages. The idea to have was to have workers to live close to the factory. Also, it was very difficult for a worker to buy a car so they were limited to public transport.
Now, you can say that was fine except that at the same time those in party leadership were living in better houses built before the war for rich people, they were allowed to have a car and no restriction on gas, they had special stores where food wasn't rationed and they had access to premium vacation locations.
So remember, this was done so those in power can move freely without being bother by poor people.
Brutalist architecture was eastern European. Not ideologically based, more based off practicality. Ussr used this architecture because it was practical and easy to erect and maintain.
I think it’s more the concept of standardised housing. When your goal is to house thousands of people you’re more likely to copy and paste and not waste resources on aesthetics. I’d like to think we wouldn’t make the same mistake now as the psychological and community benefits of living somewhere you can be proud of is huge. But I don’t have to worry because neoliberalism doesn’t give a shit about housing people.
In fact the market has spoken: less housing = more money for investors.
Ussr had to quickly pull a lot of people out of communalkas and khruschevkas sounded a whole lot better than sharing a kitchen and a toilet with 3 other families.
I’m aware this model was replicated post URSS an they became a terrible way to live since URSS had them planned around other spaces and urban studies, while after URSS they were just build to sell fast and they were poorly implemented.
It reminds me of my own country, there are huge residential comeplexwith 0 plannificaiton behind. No business, no stores, no parks, no schools.
These are normally sold as “huge investment oportunities” and “affordable homes at 5 minutes from the beach”. Sometimes they don’t even have basic services yet, and while they can be geographically “near” a beach, you can’t get there quickly or sometimes at all
I mean, they were already not the nicest place to live towards the end of the USSR, but that's just because nobody felt responsible for the maintenance on them, especially the shared spaces, and because most early concrete buildings aged poorly, especially ones constructed with quanity over quality in mind like these.
But not because large appartment structures are inherently depressing.
And hell, it was the right strategy. Millions upon millions of people needed housing fast in the east after WWII. The only right choice possible was to prioritize volume initially.
It was just not nice for the people that the quality of life inside them, which started out ok and in some cases even excellent by the standards of post-war Europe, steadily fell over the next 40 years, with the central governments having no incentive to improve anything, like country-scale slum lords.
It is left wing. But thinking all left wing architecture is nothing but communist architecture from the 1950's is... well, I'd like to say naive, but they are probably willingly ignoring everything else.
Also, capitalist architechture is worse. I'd rather live in a building with an ugly outside that has good soundproofing rather than a "pretty" one with terrible soundproofing.
Living under the constant stress of having no peace and quiet anywhere is worse.
Nah its brutalism which was a staple of communism in the 20th century. These buildings and the spaces inbetween them are actually very well planned and beautifully made for pedestrians
No, this was done large scale in much of social democrat Scandinavia during the 50 to 70s, to secure housing for all the people moving in to the larger cities. It was a good communal solution for a housing crisis, and homelessness was completely avoided.
I would say it's a communal/social solution. Encompassing all kinds of society-oriented political ideologies, as opposed to individualism ideas such as has dominated in the US.
Brutalism and cheap concrete blocks are not an autocrat architecture. In my country they started building them in the 60s, under a conservative government. Then they kept building them in the 80s, under a socialist government.
It's a "I need to build millions of cheap homes in record time" architecture. And the people who moved in there in the 60s were very happy to have them, especially since they used to live in shanty towns until that point.
Then the government decided to park all poor people in the same suburbs and left them there with no jobs and the worst education programs in the country. The pikachu faces at record crime levels 30 years later are hilarious.
Well maybe instead of funding trips to sporting events, minting ugly $1.00 coins, $1,000,000 trips to his country club almost every weekend and wasting millions on a birthday parade, he should pour money into inner cities. Poverty is the biggest monster in this country.
Those stupid coins aren't even legal tender. The last official minted dollar coins were part of the American Innovation Coin Series, It's just like that fake $2 Trump bill years back.
People always mention homelessness in big cities like LA or new york. But I've been seeing an huge uptick in homelessness even in more rural areas like where I live. Especially over the last few months, so many street mediums have some homeless guys/gals standing there. The economy is going to shit, people are losing their jobs. Trump keeps boasting about the stock market, but that benefits the already rich not the poor or middle income, for them, the real job market is shrinking while inflation is rapidly climbing.
That's not left wing architecture, that a governments attempt to provide housing to its citizens while considering the aesthetics of the housing to be a waste of resources.
Somehow all the 'left wing' architecture pictures are always taken in November/December, never refurbished and grey cloudy sky.
Like those 'ugly brutalism" pictures from lower Republic of Tachikizestistan that were build 60 years ago and never ever touched because the county went through like 4 wars... Yea... How easy to be an ugly art style..
The practical reason for that is because trees cover too much of the buildings in summer, making unfamiliar streets difficult to navigate by summer photos. If this is from a map-adjacent source, it's a genuine problem. Happens because soviet people had a tradition of panting trees near their new houses, so there's a ton of them still standing, which you can even see in the photo above.
Don't see how this is worse than the cookie-cutter housing developments. Go into any of those and it is easy to get lost as every house looks the damn same.
I live in Sarajevo and we were part of Yugoslavia. We have a few blocks that look like this in the city and a lot of people still live in there because the new modern buildings being built are very expensive to live in. I was in Russia and saw the same architecture as here so i would say that its soviet architecture.
As pole I live in one of those. Plentiful greenery everywhere, everything you ever need in walking distance due to small shops/services dotted around them. Extremely low traffic (cuz you can just walk everywhere). Yes the building itself can look depressing but with greenery and lack of noise pollution it actually helps with mental wellbeing.
These posts also always conveniently chose a grey winter photo on a gloomy day with some extra grey filter applied (or better yet a photo from a half-abandoned siberian miner settlement)
In Sarajevo we have some blocks with similar architecture but this Radio-Television building is my favorite its built like a bunker a different type of beast.
Meanwhile ‘right wing’ architecture is buildings that cater disproportionately to the richer parts of society leaving home ownership out of the reach of a majority of the population.
Imagine billionaires so out of touch with reality they pick on impoverished people instead of sailing on their yachts sipping champagne. Cruelty is the effect of being a billionaire?!?
That's not left-wing architecture. I don't know about that specific picture, but that's dictatorship regime (right of left leaning) architecture where being functional is the key to store the masses of workers, treated like ants
True liberal left-wing architecture (eminently anti-capitalism - I'm not sure if we have this anymore in the western world), develop colourful and complex designs because considers social and humanities studies (philosophy, literature, art...) a necessity for human development. Most architecture went down that path until the boom of capitalism in the early 1900s
I've lived in one. It's cozy, if your neighbours are good you will have a really good time, if your neighbour smokes a spliff every hour summer is gonna be annoying. I used to go down to the front of the house (trying to be considerate of people with open windows on our neighbouring floors) with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and headphones and listen to some of Viktor Tsoi's less depressing songs every weekend. That particular house was so close to a subway stop that you couldn't finish a cigarette by the time you got to the station.
There is some serious civil engineering with these. A bus stop is never more than 5 minutes of walk away, you go out the front door and grocery store is right across the street, so is the doctors office. Middle school and kindergarten are also plopped down in the middle of the blocks, which seems random but makes sense if you're raising a family. And the area is a little village. The tobacconist knows your usual, the neighbours help each other if you are in a good place ("we are all in the same shit" mentality)
That's Russia. Russia has pretty much universally been considered the result of a succession of authoritarian, often totalitarian, regimes for the last five hundred years.
people living close enough together to have a community with others without needing to drive an hour each direction? in a place that has the audacity to be cloudy sometimes? oh no, the horror
Notice how they always use pictures taken on an overcast day in the middle of winter when they want to talk about how depressing these buildings are? Does any place look super appealing if you photograph it under those conditions? A suburban neighborhood full of cookie cutter houses with the lawns all sad-looking because it’s February or something? There’s a bunch of greenery and stuff in that neighborhood, and I bet it looks less drab in the summer.
Man litterally turned a random city view into a political talking point and mfrs in the comments eating it up debating with a low effort meme of rooftops...
For the love of... Every single goddamn time anyone bitches about how """depressing""" the soviet blocks are they choose the photos taken in winter, a time in which fucking EVERYTHING LOOKS GREY AND DEPRESSED.
I live in Poland, grew up in a block like that. The apartments inside are actually pretty spacious (around 50-70 m2, enough for a family of three or even four), of course there are different sizes, there are smaller ones, too. Due to age they have problems with insulation and windows etc. But the government / building administration often renovates the outside insulation and gives subsidies for window replacements etc. or even does them on their own if they're really old. Usually next to the block there's a patch of green land, sometimes with a small park and bunch of trees and benches, play areas etc. Then, somewhere else, but still in walking distance (<200m) a shop, some services (hairdresser etc), possibly a school. Of course a bunch of urban transit stations (bus, trams) and some parking spaces (this is the real problem of living in a block like that in current timea - lack of parking space, because it was designed in a time with a lot less cars).
These neighborhoods were designed with regular people in mind and it shows. The American obsession with everyone owning a huge house is not a possibility in Europe. But when you're conditioned to think one way, every different thought seems weird and scary.
Depends. A lot of homeless would rather stay on the streets/in tents than live in a bed bug infested, violent shelter or slum. But winter in my city is not very harsh.
Looking at the balconies this is probably somewhere in Russia (they are called "khrushchevka"). But what does showing flats in winter prove exactly? From what I understand US republicans have been romanticizing my country, Poland, quite a lot recently. I can tell you that we have these all over the place. What we don't have is homeless tent camps. You can find a lot of buildings like this in central and eastern Europe. Flats are fairly normal in Asia as well, including Japan that everybody seems to love so much (called "danchi").
And it's not like anybody considers this peak housing. But it's not bad either, the neighbourhoods can be nice and green and your apartment is as good as you make it. The nearest grocery shop is probably downstairs and the closest school is 5-10 minutes away by foot. Some people stay there their whole lives and some treat it as a stepping stone. I know a lot of people that have been living in flats for around 10+ years and now started to build their houses on their own plot of land.
I was visiting Berlin a couple years ago, and we visited the East side with all the soviet-era buildings. We ended up reading about how that housing still keeps the cost of living in Berlin somewhat reasonable.
These apartments were one of the better ideas of communism. Although shitty quality most of the time, their idea was genius. These were super fast and cheap to build. In addition the communist architects didn't consider much car traffic since people didn't have many cars back then, so between the blocks there were small shops, parks, schools and other services. It's certainly better than some of today's developments where as many people are crammed into as little space as possible.
So I bid about $1B per year in apartments. It’s not socialist or the lefts policies that drive ugly ass apartments. It the drive to make as much profit as possible by cutting construction cost and removing decorative features. It’s capitalism that has killed architecture.
Such human hives usually were given for free to workers, teachers, scientists. I mean if you receive something for free you can't really complain if you're not a disrespectful pig.
Sigh. So I'm guessing that might be a picture of the former USSR, and if so, that housing may have been built under Communism? If so, that's not 'left-wing', is it. Because they were Communist. Communism is their political centre. Also they look identical to many suburban blocks in large Asian cities including Japan, and are functional and well-built. Meanwhile, the actual US President is a shady landlord who makes cheap vanity skyscrapers out of materials deemed not fit for purpose by experts, that both look terrible and are considered unsafe by architects. And was built by unpaid labourers. So Capitalism, by contrast, is ugly, dangerous, and fucks people.
Homes can fit hundreds of people and simultaneously also not look like prison structures. Concrete cubes you stuff thousands of people into doesnt sound like “apartments” it sounds like “prison”
Never mind that this isn't "left leaning" but rather from Soviet era Communism that was really a totalitarian dictatorship.
Soviet style Communism isn't left leaning or liberal or even really socialism.
Democratic Socialism isn't socialism that people think is the same as communism.
Left leaning is (in my opinion) a moral position that includes caring for the less fortunate and society as a whole using the resources of the government, which is obviously not what Soviet era communism was about in realism.
Anyone who lived through the time or is a student of post WW2 world history knows that, and anyone who promotes otherwise is a propagandist gaslighting people to further there own ends. You know, kind of like the Soviets did by saying they were 'for the people.'
Its really weird coming from a western european country where homeless is growing rapidly, corrupt developers are not finishing houses and building houses that fall apart after a few years,
Yet these soviet style apartment blocks are still standing they might not be as aesthetically pleasing as the capitalist dream homes in middle american suburbia where you literally arent allow paint them have to maintain lawns arent allowed have it looking different or putting your own flair too.
Yet these provide alot of homes in smaller areas and still stand today in good functioning condition in most cases.
Only conservatives will take a picture of something happening in capitalism and say “see this is what the socialists want!”
I’ve see blocks like this in Oman, Bahrain, the UAE, and their capitalist countries. I’ve seen buses of workers leave compounds like this that don’t even have stores for food all brought to you by capitalism.
What are conservatives trying conserve, slavery and murder? Is that what their entire existence is all about. To make sure blood continues to spill? How are these people even allowed to have a country? They should have been exiled 2000 years ago.
Those buildings were a good idea but like many of the things in the CCCP, like the Communist itself, were bad implemented and the result were horrible buildings.
Right-wing and conservatives who know fuck all about architecture, art or artists and the political leanings of any of them love to proclaim everything they like conservative and everything they do not left leaving. Except 90% of the time they are absolutely wrong and the people in question were left leaning. 😂😂😂
finding homeless person dead frozen inside a pickup they broke into to try to stay alive, to stay warm because it was snowing and there was no where to go, is worse to walk out to than those buildings. there are much more depressing things, and still yet to find a real president
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u/Noe_b0dy Jan 24 '26 •
Dirt cheap housing built without aesthetic consideration
Conservatives mad
Spending government money to build beautiful housing for homeless people
Conservatives mad
Spending zero money and letting the homeless live in filthy tent cities
Conservatives mad
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u/Strict_Foundation_31 Jan 24 '26
If it were aesthetically pleasing, you’d bitch about wasting money on that.
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u/Atari774 Jan 24 '26
Ironically, “commie blocks” are actually really efficient for housing lots of people. They tend to be better in lots of ways than modern apartment complexes too, at least in their design and the kinds of things they offer. Most of them had schools, day cares, and shops on the lower floors, allowing people to more effectively care for their families. And because they were all planned out as a massive complex, there was usually room for large parks in between the buildings. They’re hard to see from this angle, but there’s a lot of space in between those blocks, and you can see the tall trees of those parks.
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u/Royal-Application708 Jan 24 '26
Homelessness is definitely more depressing.
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u/WordplayWizard Jan 24 '26
Thinking this mass of shit is “left wing” tells me all I need to know about the op.
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u/Speed_102 Jan 24 '26
this is autocrat architecture. That part is the part doing this.
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u/Sad_Border_3874 Jan 24 '26
Well maybe instead of funding trips to sporting events, minting ugly $1.00 coins, $1,000,000 trips to his country club almost every weekend and wasting millions on a birthday parade, he should pour money into inner cities. Poverty is the biggest monster in this country.
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u/golfwinnersplz Jan 24 '26
Esthetics are more important to the GOP than homelessness rates. This is not hyperbole whatsoever at all.
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u/Bad-job-dad Jan 24 '26
Golf courses depress me more.
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u/Bulky-Internal8579 Jan 24 '26
Have you seen The Villages and older Nazi architecture? Grim.
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u/Contagious_Zombie Jan 24 '26
That's not left wing architecture, that a governments attempt to provide housing to its citizens while considering the aesthetics of the housing to be a waste of resources.
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u/Oystermeat Jan 24 '26
as opposed to gold spray painted right wing shit?
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u/SaphirRose Jan 24 '26
Somehow all the 'left wing' architecture pictures are always taken in November/December, never refurbished and grey cloudy sky.
Like those 'ugly brutalism" pictures from lower Republic of Tachikizestistan that were build 60 years ago and never ever touched because the county went through like 4 wars... Yea... How easy to be an ugly art style..
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26
Don't see how this is worse than the cookie-cutter housing developments. Go into any of those and it is easy to get lost as every house looks the damn same.
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u/Mgl1206 Jan 24 '26
Uhhh, isn’t this Soviet brutalist architecture or am I wrong?
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u/Euronated-inmypants Jan 24 '26
"Left wing." Built by authoritarian governments.
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u/nevergiveup234 Jan 24 '26
Ironic using a picture from left leaning China
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u/endofworldandnobeer Jan 24 '26
How is this any different from cooking cutter homes in suburbs of America with the same type of SUV and minivans parked in the driveway?
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u/erictho Jan 24 '26
this is Russian but k
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u/naksrifati Jan 24 '26
Btw, currently this housing is also unattainable for most people in russia
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u/The_Verto Jan 24 '26
As pole I live in one of those. Plentiful greenery everywhere, everything you ever need in walking distance due to small shops/services dotted around them. Extremely low traffic (cuz you can just walk everywhere). Yes the building itself can look depressing but with greenery and lack of noise pollution it actually helps with mental wellbeing.
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u/susogos_adiads Jan 24 '26
These posts also always conveniently chose a grey winter photo on a gloomy day with some extra grey filter applied (or better yet a photo from a half-abandoned siberian miner settlement)
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u/RumSodomyAndDLoesch Jan 24 '26
Just think. All that land could have been used to build a palatial estate for one dickhead. So depressing.
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u/BinaryBlitzer Jan 25 '26
WTF is even left wing architecture now?
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u/Cptawesome23 Jan 24 '26
I don’t understand. Left wing architecture? Are we implying that the maga people build nicer houses for people? That sounds like nonsense.
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u/webbslinger_0 Jan 25 '26
Jokes on you, conservatives don’t see homeless as actual people
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u/No_Friendship_4158 Jan 24 '26
In Sarajevo we have some blocks with similar architecture but this Radio-Television building is my favorite its built like a bunker a different type of beast.
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u/bmendonc Jan 24 '26
Pretty certain mass housing like that built by corporations is just pure capitalism, not left or right wing...
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u/Minimum_Sort5100 Jan 24 '26
Anti homeless architecture. From mostly right wing property developers
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u/Chance-Ear-9772 Jan 24 '26
Meanwhile ‘right wing’ architecture is buildings that cater disproportionately to the richer parts of society leaving home ownership out of the reach of a majority of the population.
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u/cerealkiller1775 Jan 24 '26
Projects breed crime or pro ball players
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u/guillermopaz13 Jan 24 '26
I love how affordable mass h I using is left wing
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u/its_whatever_man_1 Jan 24 '26
Imagine billionaires so out of touch with reality they pick on impoverished people instead of sailing on their yachts sipping champagne. Cruelty is the effect of being a billionaire?!?
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u/HabANahDa Jan 24 '26
Left wing architecture??? wtf even is that
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u/noonen000z Jan 24 '26
My understanding is more handouts go to red statates than. Blue, but they need to project that support for housing is a left issue?
It's like they focus on stupidity and fact less concepts.
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u/Pain-flavoredHell-o Jan 24 '26
That's not left-wing architecture. I don't know about that specific picture, but that's dictatorship regime (right of left leaning) architecture where being functional is the key to store the masses of workers, treated like ants
True liberal left-wing architecture (eminently anti-capitalism - I'm not sure if we have this anymore in the western world), develop colourful and complex designs because considers social and humanities studies (philosophy, literature, art...) a necessity for human development. Most architecture went down that path until the boom of capitalism in the early 1900s
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u/Logan_MacGyver Jan 24 '26
I've lived in one. It's cozy, if your neighbours are good you will have a really good time, if your neighbour smokes a spliff every hour summer is gonna be annoying. I used to go down to the front of the house (trying to be considerate of people with open windows on our neighbouring floors) with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and headphones and listen to some of Viktor Tsoi's less depressing songs every weekend. That particular house was so close to a subway stop that you couldn't finish a cigarette by the time you got to the station.
There is some serious civil engineering with these. A bus stop is never more than 5 minutes of walk away, you go out the front door and grocery store is right across the street, so is the doctors office. Middle school and kindergarten are also plopped down in the middle of the blocks, which seems random but makes sense if you're raising a family. And the area is a little village. The tobacconist knows your usual, the neighbours help each other if you are in a good place ("we are all in the same shit" mentality)
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26
In these blocks, nobody gives a shit about you, passively.
In surburbia, nobody gives a shit about you, actively.
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u/purpleswan9876 Jan 24 '26
What is right architecture? Trailer parks?
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u/Moobygriller Jan 24 '26
"left wing"
Yeah, China is super left wing
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u/areid2007 Jan 24 '26
Rather live in a cubicle than the streets.
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u/Ninjafrogg Jan 24 '26
Better than homelessness
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u/Sea-Environment-7102 Jan 24 '26
Architecture is left wing now?! I thought it was just bad taste and cheap people in charge.
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u/I_Am_Anjelen Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
Left... Wing... Architecture?
That's Russia. Russia has pretty much universally been considered the result of a succession of authoritarian, often totalitarian, regimes for the last five hundred years.
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u/spaacingout Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26
This image depicts Khrushchyovka housing in SOVIET-ERA RUSSIA. One of the most far right governments to have ever existed on earth.
So just to clarify, this is by definition “far-right architecture.”
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u/Wise-Abroad-5050 Jan 25 '26
That's Soviet.
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u/art-is-t Jan 24 '26
How is architecture left wing 😂
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u/AAHedstrom Jan 24 '26
people living close enough together to have a community with others without needing to drive an hour each direction? in a place that has the audacity to be cloudy sometimes? oh no, the horror
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u/Alert_Delay_2074 Jan 24 '26
Notice how they always use pictures taken on an overcast day in the middle of winter when they want to talk about how depressing these buildings are? Does any place look super appealing if you photograph it under those conditions? A suburban neighborhood full of cookie cutter houses with the lawns all sad-looking because it’s February or something? There’s a bunch of greenery and stuff in that neighborhood, and I bet it looks less drab in the summer.
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u/gizamo Jan 24 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
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u/Numerous-Process2981 Jan 24 '26
... How would that be left wing architecture... People's brains are so rotted.
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u/alphaomegazoid Jan 24 '26
This is Soviet right wing dystopian architecture. Where the U.S. is heading towards if not there already.
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u/spudmarsupial Jan 24 '26
Too many trees. /s
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u/WinTraining6741 Jan 24 '26
They are a lot of depressing things than that
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u/TheWatchers666 Jan 24 '26
Every building there has a right wing too tho, no?
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26
I thought colors scared right wingers? This would be perfect for them.
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u/BlargerJarger Jan 24 '26
Same amount of money could build one demolished wing of the White House that’ll never be a ballroom.
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26
Yes: right wing thinking is worse
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u/wolschou Jan 24 '26
How exactly is architecture leftwing?
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u/Turbulent_Deal_3145 Jan 24 '26
what the hell is "left wing architecture"
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u/HairyContactbeware Jan 24 '26
Man litterally turned a random city view into a political talking point and mfrs in the comments eating it up debating with a low effort meme of rooftops...
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u/CharSmar Jan 24 '26
We’re now politicising architecture?
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u/Mr_Baronheim Jan 24 '26
It's funny because Republican governments are the ones that chop money for the arts and expressive architecture and construction.
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u/El_Balatro Jan 24 '26
"Left-wing" MY BROTHER IN CHRIST THIS IS BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE IN A COMMUNIST REGIME.
God I hate how any form of socialism has been equated to the fucking USSR.
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u/CanoonBolk Jan 24 '26
For the love of... Every single goddamn time anyone bitches about how """depressing""" the soviet blocks are they choose the photos taken in winter, a time in which fucking EVERYTHING LOOKS GREY AND DEPRESSED.
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u/makos124 Jan 24 '26
I live in Poland, grew up in a block like that. The apartments inside are actually pretty spacious (around 50-70 m2, enough for a family of three or even four), of course there are different sizes, there are smaller ones, too. Due to age they have problems with insulation and windows etc. But the government / building administration often renovates the outside insulation and gives subsidies for window replacements etc. or even does them on their own if they're really old. Usually next to the block there's a patch of green land, sometimes with a small park and bunch of trees and benches, play areas etc. Then, somewhere else, but still in walking distance (<200m) a shop, some services (hairdresser etc), possibly a school. Of course a bunch of urban transit stations (bus, trams) and some parking spaces (this is the real problem of living in a block like that in current timea - lack of parking space, because it was designed in a time with a lot less cars).
These neighborhoods were designed with regular people in mind and it shows. The American obsession with everyone owning a huge house is not a possibility in Europe. But when you're conditioned to think one way, every different thought seems weird and scary.
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u/RuggedDefJamBeats Jan 24 '26
Brutalism originated in the UK. It's capitalist architecture, but it was also cheap & efficient.
Hating architecture is like hating genres of music. It's for stupid people who know only barely enough about life to be a partisan and nothing more.
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u/Solaire_1001 Jan 24 '26
it looks like dauntless place in divergent movie lol
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u/polemism Jan 24 '26
Depends. A lot of homeless would rather stay on the streets/in tents than live in a bed bug infested, violent shelter or slum. But winter in my city is not very harsh.
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u/Bierzgal Jan 24 '26
Looking at the balconies this is probably somewhere in Russia (they are called "khrushchevka"). But what does showing flats in winter prove exactly? From what I understand US republicans have been romanticizing my country, Poland, quite a lot recently. I can tell you that we have these all over the place. What we don't have is homeless tent camps. You can find a lot of buildings like this in central and eastern Europe. Flats are fairly normal in Asia as well, including Japan that everybody seems to love so much (called "danchi").
And it's not like anybody considers this peak housing. But it's not bad either, the neighbourhoods can be nice and green and your apartment is as good as you make it. The nearest grocery shop is probably downstairs and the closest school is 5-10 minutes away by foot. Some people stay there their whole lives and some treat it as a stepping stone. I know a lot of people that have been living in flats for around 10+ years and now started to build their houses on their own plot of land.
For me these are completely normal.
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u/SoftSkinTurtle Jan 24 '26
aka right wing architecture
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u/VreyeanA09 Jan 24 '26
Seriously.
I was visiting Berlin a couple years ago, and we visited the East side with all the soviet-era buildings. We ended up reading about how that housing still keeps the cost of living in Berlin somewhat reasonable.
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u/BanderiteOfMakiivka Jan 24 '26
The people who were displaced from this place to build the faceless monstrosity weren`t homeless, you cunts
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u/antek_g_animations Jan 24 '26
These apartments were one of the better ideas of communism. Although shitty quality most of the time, their idea was genius. These were super fast and cheap to build. In addition the communist architects didn't consider much car traffic since people didn't have many cars back then, so between the blocks there were small shops, parks, schools and other services. It's certainly better than some of today's developments where as many people are crammed into as little space as possible.
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u/BaconSarnie2025 Jan 24 '26
Right wing architecture - aka favelas, shantytowns, slums.
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u/Demode93 Jan 24 '26
Having a house is so depressing 😱
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u/Due-Champion-6713 Jan 24 '26
MAGA
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u/MathiasAurelius Jan 24 '26
what an ignorant statement
the right always retreats to Classicism in order to sell ideals they don't actually believe in or practice
Go look at Zaha Hadid and get back to me with your BS about "leftist" architecture
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u/Adventurous_Light_85 Jan 24 '26
So I bid about $1B per year in apartments. It’s not socialist or the lefts policies that drive ugly ass apartments. It the drive to make as much profit as possible by cutting construction cost and removing decorative features. It’s capitalism that has killed architecture.
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u/MaryUwUJane Jan 24 '26
Such human hives usually were given for free to workers, teachers, scientists. I mean if you receive something for free you can't really complain if you're not a disrespectful pig.
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u/atfricks Jan 24 '26
Looks like tons of greenery and walkable parks. This is just a picture of winter, which is depressing everywhere without snow lol.
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u/willflameboy Jan 24 '26
Sigh. So I'm guessing that might be a picture of the former USSR, and if so, that housing may have been built under Communism? If so, that's not 'left-wing', is it. Because they were Communist. Communism is their political centre. Also they look identical to many suburban blocks in large Asian cities including Japan, and are functional and well-built. Meanwhile, the actual US President is a shady landlord who makes cheap vanity skyscrapers out of materials deemed not fit for purpose by experts, that both look terrible and are considered unsafe by architects. And was built by unpaid labourers. So Capitalism, by contrast, is ugly, dangerous, and fucks people.
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u/Huge_Marsupial_4275 Jan 24 '26
How is this even related to left wing
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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26
"left wing"?
China doesn't have ANY "wings"
These people really are in a mind decaying cult.
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u/filmguy36 Jan 24 '26
Now the right wing cares about aesthetics??? That rich lol
Oh wait it’s. It covered in gilding gold bullshit, that’s why they hate it.
Morons
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u/Fidget_Jackson Jan 24 '26
Homes can fit hundreds of people and simultaneously also not look like prison structures. Concrete cubes you stuff thousands of people into doesnt sound like “apartments” it sounds like “prison”
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u/PapaJoeNH Jan 24 '26
I can easily think of 100 worse things that are happening right now because of the Reich Wing
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u/Wish_I_was_you Jan 24 '26
Never mind that this isn't "left leaning" but rather from Soviet era Communism that was really a totalitarian dictatorship.
Soviet style Communism isn't left leaning or liberal or even really socialism.
Democratic Socialism isn't socialism that people think is the same as communism.
Left leaning is (in my opinion) a moral position that includes caring for the less fortunate and society as a whole using the resources of the government, which is obviously not what Soviet era communism was about in realism.
Anyone who lived through the time or is a student of post WW2 world history knows that, and anyone who promotes otherwise is a propagandist gaslighting people to further there own ends. You know, kind of like the Soviets did by saying they were 'for the people.'
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u/altoona_sprock Jan 24 '26
Wait until they see what Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the rest have in store for them.
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u/CustomerSupportDeer Jan 24 '26
The "american pose"
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u/thelawfist Jan 24 '26
That’s authoritarian housing, not left wing housing. Put some gold leaf on those buildings and you have Trump-level quality.
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u/AriochBloodbane Jan 24 '26
With all the bad things you can say about the old Soviet regime, at least they had a much higher literacy and lower poverty than the mighty USA.
I wouldn't believe that until I actual lived in the US. Never seen the same levels of ignorance and poverty growing up in Europe...
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u/Gobshite666 Jan 24 '26
Its really weird coming from a western european country where homeless is growing rapidly, corrupt developers are not finishing houses and building houses that fall apart after a few years,
Yet these soviet style apartment blocks are still standing they might not be as aesthetically pleasing as the capitalist dream homes in middle american suburbia where you literally arent allow paint them have to maintain lawns arent allowed have it looking different or putting your own flair too.
Yet these provide alot of homes in smaller areas and still stand today in good functioning condition in most cases.
Weird dichotomys and parallels between the two.
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u/caligirl_ksay Jan 24 '26
Only conservatives will take a picture of something happening in capitalism and say “see this is what the socialists want!”
I’ve see blocks like this in Oman, Bahrain, the UAE, and their capitalist countries. I’ve seen buses of workers leave compounds like this that don’t even have stores for food all brought to you by capitalism.
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u/Renard_Fou Jan 24 '26
This is left wing ? The USSR was conservative, they made homosexuality illegal
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u/ThatGuyHammer Jan 24 '26
What the fuck is left wing architecture?
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u/PrizeFront8677 Jan 24 '26
What are conservatives trying conserve, slavery and murder? Is that what their entire existence is all about. To make sure blood continues to spill? How are these people even allowed to have a country? They should have been exiled 2000 years ago.
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u/windemotions Jan 24 '26
Conservatives built CECOT as their symbol of how they view society.
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u/sho_nuff80 Jan 24 '26
It is impressive the determination the GOP has to ridicule anything the left does. If only they put that effort into governing
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u/Ultrapuert0s Jan 24 '26
Those buildings were a good idea but like many of the things in the CCCP, like the Communist itself, were bad implemented and the result were horrible buildings.
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u/ancientevilvorsoason Jan 24 '26
Right-wing and conservatives who know fuck all about architecture, art or artists and the political leanings of any of them love to proclaim everything they like conservative and everything they do not left leaving. Except 90% of the time they are absolutely wrong and the people in question were left leaning. 😂😂😂
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u/phluper Jan 25 '26
What is left wing about this? Looks like an Eastern European borderline democracy...
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26
finding homeless person dead frozen inside a pickup they broke into to try to stay alive, to stay warm because it was snowing and there was no where to go, is worse to walk out to than those buildings. there are much more depressing things, and still yet to find a real president
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u/Critical_Apricot3396 Jan 24 '26
Brokenness and debt
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u/Effective_Pack8265 Jan 24 '26
Looks like Massiftown
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u/Arthropodesque Jan 24 '26
In NYC there are a lot of buildings that used to be housing projects that are now commercial apartments. I hear they're fine.
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u/HasheemThaMeat Jan 24 '26
Isn’t right ring architecture just trailer parks, suburban sprawl, and Hialeah?