David Harvey
David Harvey
David W. Harvey FBAis the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 October 1935
wall differences political
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
class way individual
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
wall political movement
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.
financial finance concentration
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
form crisis spectacular
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
hands invisible-hand form
the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
snakes skins peculiar
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.
expansion accumulation values
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.
technological-change force capitalism
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
mean ideas giving
not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?
contradiction abolition capitalism
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
monopoly-power owners certain
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
mean use movement
The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.
mean technology revolution
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.