Metromarxism

Andy Merrifield is Professor of Geography at Clark University. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford and is the coeditor of The Urbanization of Justice in addition to being a contributor to The Nation and Dissent.

"People who equate Marxism with drabness have not been keeping up with their shopping (Prada) or their reading. Merrifield, a British writer who now lives in New York, is accessible, optimistic and even fun. The urban center, Merrifield argues, is the site of economic extremes and for that reason the most promising field for social change. A primer for the postindustrial "children of Marx and Coca-Cola"." -- The New York Times"The strengths of Metromarxism are immediately apparent.Merrifield is a lively, engaging , and sometimes humorouswriter... He says enough about their ideas to pique ourinterest, concisely, and with the minimum of jargon. Hisjudgements are consistenly sound, and the selectedreferences useful... More taster than primer, this booknicely fills a niche." -- H-Net

• Introduction1.Karl Marx: Commodities and Cities, With Sober Senses2.Fredrick Engels: Back Street Boy in Manchester3.Walter Benjamin: The City of Profane Illumination4.Henri Lefebvre: The Urban Revolution5. Guy Debord: The City of Marx and Coca-Cola6.Manuel Castells: The City of Althusser and Social Movements7. David Harvey: The Geopolitics of Urbanization8. Marshall Berman: A Marxist URban Romance