It’s just not true

Abstract

Simon Springer’s argument for anarchist geography is both an unsubstantiated dismissal of the Marxian tradition and an uncritical celebration of the anarchism he endorses. There may be good reasons to be wary of the influence of Marxism and Marxists in ‘radical’ geography, but his politically ungenerous and analytically wrong representation of Marxism and Marxism geography is not the place to begin.

Keywords

Anarchism Marxism Marxist geography

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