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| Enlightenment of Marx and Engelss Discussion of Urban Housing
Problems in the Process of Industrialization |
| ZOU Fu-Liang, LIU Ming-Ming |
| School of Marxism, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China |
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Abstract Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels made a thorough study of the urban housing problems in the industrialization process in Germany and the United Kingdom in the mid19th century, exposed the severe shortage of houses for the workers. They pointed out that such a shortage was the inevitable product of capitalist industrialization, and that although the reconstruction of the old cities and land speculation led to shortage, the root of this crisis lay in capitalism itself. They argued that the only solution to this problem was for the working class to obtain all means of production and subsistence. Marx and Engelss discussion of urban housing problems in the industrialization process can help us understand the historical temporariness and inevitability of the same problem in China, and recognize that urban inhabitants desire of owning their houses is the essential requirements of socialism, that migrant workers should have their houses like their urban counterparts, and that homebuilding cannot be left in the marketinstead, we should deal properly with the relationship between demolishing and building urban houses, balance urban and rural development, reduce the pressure of urban residence, and use policies to control property speculation.
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2016, Vol. 18 
