The idea of "the spatial fix" initially came out of attempts to reconstruct Marx is theory of the geography of capitalist accumulation. In the first essay on this topic, published in Antipode in 1975, I showed that Marx is fragmentary writings on the geography of capitalist accumulation could be consolidated into a reasonably consistent account that depicted the spatial as well as the temporal dynamics of capitalism. I later sought to deepen the argument through an examination of the relations between Hegel is views on imperialism, von Thuncn is arguments concerning the frontier wage (a precursor to key formulations on marginal pricing in neoclassical economics) and Marx is arguments on colonialism (most particularly the peculiarity of closing the first volume of Capital with a chapter on colonial land policies).