Man of the WestMike was born in 1946 in Fontana, San Bernandino County, in the Inland Empire region east of Los Angeles. He finally made a serious re-entry into the academy in the mid-1970s, studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, on a butchers’ union scholarship. City of Quartz—in a nutshell—is about the contradictory impact of economic globalisation upon different segments of Los Angeles society. He told Adam Shatz:I had this daydream of Walter Benjamin finally coming to Los Angeles and sitting in a bar with Fernand Braudel and Engels. At some stage in the disintegration of the International Marxist Group, Mike drifted out of practical involvement in the Fourth International.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 15, 2023 06:21 UTC