[26] As a Marxist theorist (but highly critical of the economic structuralism that dominated the academic discourse in his period), Lefebvre argues that this social production of urban space is fundamental to the reproduction of society, hence of capitalism itself. 1991 with Patricia Latour and Francis Combes. He then went from serving as a primary intellectual for the PCF to becoming one of France's most important critics of the PCF's politics (e.g. Space HENRI,,LEFEBVRE Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith 111 BLACI