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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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But I'm not calling them dumb. I'm calling them liberal. Which by the very nature of the two ideologies means they're not going to be inclined to believe a leftist's viewpoint. And Radical Planning (the YouTuber) is most definitely a leftist, espousing leftist viewpoints.
The only person who could interpret me as calling them "dumb" is someone that presupposes it is automatically an accusation of stupidity to say you oppose leftism. Which is, in itself, a way of saying "all liberals are dumb".
Are you being deliberately obtuse? The use of the word "even" here is, in the context of people who are assumed to be leftists, to suggest that the content of this video stretches out beyond just its intended audience, and even reaches (or at least, I am claiming it could reach) people outside the primary audience. Namely, liberals.