1. ON "GEOGRAPHIC INEQUALITY UNDER SOCIALISM"
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Peet, Richard
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SOCIALISM ,EQUALITY ,COMMUNISM ,NATURE ,GEOGRAPHY ,ANARCHISM - Abstract
The article presents comments of the author on the article "Geographic Inequality Under Socialism," by Roland J. Fuchs and George J. Demko. This paper competently reviews the evidence for the persistence there of spatial inequalities. Their conception of Marxism and their generalizations about the effects of socialism on inequality, are very much subject to question, however. Essentially authors share a misunderstanding with most geographers concerning the nature of Marxist theory and the work of Marxist geographers-thus Marxism is assumed to consist only of a politics, defined narrowly as the advocacy of a certain form of socialist state, one which we are supposed to believe will solve all human problems within a short time.
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- 1980
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