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
creating russia goal
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal.
spheres social existence
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
commodity inflation hard
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
long world capitalism
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.
ifs labour
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.
earth labour products
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
technological-change obsolescence rate
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
world social aspect
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.
war military form
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
way individual capitalist
Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.
space space-time
Capital creates space-time .
errors judging political
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.
running long contradiction
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.