ASSOCIATION AFFAIRS

The critique of Clark and Dear is criticized as an attempt to make radical geography safe, acceptable, and capable of being synthesized into the mainstream of conventional geography. Pragmatic exigency (“appealing'’to our colleagues) cannot provide the philosophical basis of our future development. Marxist geography instead is an application of dialectical materialism to the analysis of environmental and spatial relations. It necessarily is revolutionary science. This conclusion permanently separates radical geographers from their disciplinary colleagues, but need not prevent critical, informed debate.