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
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?
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.
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 .