>Having said that, I have gone on to read geographers like David Harvey
>which make me realize the things I thought were so novel about Castells
>were not really. And I don't understand what he means when he says Marxism
>is just a sort of science with no political valence attached to it. I find
>this a weird position to take and made me automatically distrust him.
Statements like that are how you go from being a radical academic to an advisor to governments and a philosopher for venture capitalists.
Doug