it's starting to maybe become a bit more clear that a part of the problem in detroit - not the whole problem, but a part of it - is that it's lost in a state of social development that marx (or engels) called utopian socialism. they're essentially lost in ignorance and for that reason lack the ability to govern themselves, but i guess that's what happens when you stop funding the school systems.

throughout history, socialism has usually been "utopian" in this way, in the sense that it is small-minded, insular and focused solely on what is directly in front of it. and, because it comes out of desperation and poverty, it centers itself around religious institutions, or whatever functions as a religious institution in the relevant culture.

i am not a politician, i'm just an astute analyst. i observe, i take notes - but i watch from the sidelines, i don't participate. i'm neither a leader nor a follower but an observer; i'm outside the crowd, aloof, and unable to exist on a social level that can lead.

but, my very marxist analyst is that detroit is ripe for strong, focused and scientifically leftist leadership. you'll have to fight with the religious bureaucracy when you get here, but the people here seem to know that socialism is what they want - they just don't know how to do it.