Mike Davis: Prophetic Marxist Historian and Activist
Complete your Mike Davis book shelf!
The legendary Marxist thinker and activist Mike Davis explored political power and social class for decades. As a long-time editor at New Left Review, and contributor to Los Angeles Review of Books, Socialist Review and others, his sharp analysis and glittering prose criss-crossed over urban studies, political economy, social theory, and US history to reveal the ravages of global capitalism on people and planet as well as areas for resistance.
Mike Davis chronicles the Dickensian underworld of day labor in New York, tracks the development of new ecologies and levels of development along the border, and examines the shifting realities of life and work for Latinos in US cities. The cosmopolitan result of the Latinization of America’s cities “is a rich, constantly evolving” culture that has the potential to become a radical new American counterculture.
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The Essential Mike Davis
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Listen to Mike’s close friend and comrade Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in conversation with Owen Hatherley on The Verso Podcast discussing his life, legacy, and the geography of struggle.
