The document discusses Lefebvre's views on the socio-spatial dialectic. It notes that Lefebvre disagreed with those who saw spatial forces as less important or those who saw them as merely resulting from economic processes. Instead, Lefebvre saw social and spatial relations as dialectically interdependent and co-produced by the mode of production. The document also discusses how Lefebvre's ideas influenced other thinkers like Gramsci, Harvey, and Castells in seeing the importance of spatial analysis for understanding capitalism and class struggle.

1. ReadingsLefebvre

2. Disagreement on the role of spatial structural forces in modern capitalist society.

3. Harvey and Castells recognized his contribution in dealing with organization of space as material product.

4. But does it occupy a very central position?

5. Certain boundaries beyond which it does not have any relevance.

6. Marxists failed to appreciate the essential dialectical relation between social and spatial relationships.

7. Spatial analogy to traditionally defined class relations and conditions of class conflict and structural transformation.

8. Social and Spatial relations arise from same mode of production and are also dialectically inseparable.

9. Vertical and Horizontal dimensions of mode of production are suggested in the writings of Marx and Engels.

10. Long lack of recognition leads to skepticism about role of spatial forces. The socio-spatial dialectic10/11/2010 6:59 AM2

11. Difference between space as a physical object and created space of social organization.

12. Physical space is organized and interpreted as a product of social translation, transformation and experience.