Sad week for Marx

Submitted by cuz on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 10:22

So this past week has been a bad one for a number of people I'm close to, but it's also been a sad one for Marxist theory and progressive activism. In the last week, we have lost Eric Hobsbawm and Barry Commoner. More personally, we have also lost Neil Smith, a geographer from CUNY Graduate School, whom I had the good fortune to become familiar with as a participant in the Right to the City reading group he and Peter Marcuse organized. Neil was a vivacious individual with boundless good will that should serve as an inspiration to me and to you. To see him in action, I offer you his rendition of the Socialist ABC. A truly unfortunate loss at a mere 58-years-old. Curiously, my current research paper looks at uneven development, a concept Neil theorized, in the course of Korean development.