Historical materialism has begun to treat space and geography as causal forces in capitalism
Evidence
3 A recognition that the dimensions of space and time matter, and that there are real geographies of social action, real as well as metaphorical territories and spaces of power that become vital as organizing forces in the geopolitics of capitalism, at the same time as they are the sites of innumerable differences and othernesses that have to be understood both in their own right and within the overall logic of capitalist development. Historical materialism is finally be ginning to take its geography seriously. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2207
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the corrective being urged on historical materialism: shifting from time-only to space-and-time as analytical dimensions.
- XREF: connects to: Postmodern architectural disputes are inseparable from capitalist spatial reorganization — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 577; Space homogenization clashes with place-based identity, fueling political antagonism — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1628; Annihilation of space through time has always driven capitalism — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1850 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Historical specificity distinguishes Marx’s materialism from vulgar or technological determinism
#corroborates(0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 881 - Market capitalism reorganizes sacred space into Cartesian geometric homogeneity
#expands(0.78) - Material forces of production determine the superstructure and drive social revolutions
#complicates(0.75) - Capitalist alienation extended into urban social space, not just production
#expands(0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 218 - Historical materialism rearranged rather than explained world history
#qualifies(0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 81 - The divide between representation and material reality is itself a constructed effect of capitalism
#expands(0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 94 - Historical materialism requires retaining economic determination without economic reductionism
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