We live in Mike Davis’ L.A. — but not the one you think is a cute article about the recently deceased. But, at the same time, it also starts erasing his memory and the ‘real’ Mike Davis. I mean: yes, he was an activist and an urbanist. All that, but perhaps foremost of it all: a socialist and a Marxist. The LA Times missed that part.


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