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
David Harvey quotes about
contradiction abolition capitalism
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
technological-change force capitalism
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
expansion accumulation values
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.
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.
earth labour products
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
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.
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.
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.
form crisis spectacular
The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.
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.
way individual capitalist
Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
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.
technological-change obsolescence rate
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
ifs labour
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.