David Harvey: the power of abstraction David Harvey: a critical introduction to his thought , by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock and Brett Christophers, Abingdon, Oxon, Routledge, 2023, 261 pp + xvi, £120.00, ISBN 978-0-367-13697-0 (hardback), £19.99, ISBN 978-0-367-13698-7 (paperback), £17.99, ISBN 9780429028120 (eBook).

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 It should be noted that Marx himself never used the term historical materialist, preferring instead ‘practical materialist’ or ‘communist materialist’, suggesting not a presupposed or teleological conception of history but a “practical mode of intervention into history” (Tomba, Citation2013, p. viii).2 See John Chiaradia, ‘Amadeo Bordiga and the myth of Antonio Gramsci’, for a substantive (though notably unpublished) critique of Gramsci’s Soviet Bolshevism in the 1920s. Available at libcom.org: https://files.libcom.org/files/Chiaradia-Bordiga-Gramsci.pdf.3 Letters from the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher. Marx to Ruge, Kreuznach, September 1843. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09.htm.