--- title: "5 Harvey Quotes By David Harvey" description: "5 Harvey quotes by David Harvey. Plus more from David Harvey and more Harvey sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png" --- > [ “The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …\[T\]his was achieved under… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neoliberalization-however-has/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png) > [“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/this-is-what-the-bourgeois-political-economists-have-done-they-have/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3f/david-harvey-10654_capital_this-is-what-the-bourgeois-political-eco_1505625.jpg) > [“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/failure-to-recognize-the-historical-specificity-of-the-bourgeois/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/david-harvey-10654_anarchism_failure-to-recognize-the-historical-spec_1764012.png) > [“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/one-of-the-curious-things-about-our-educational-system-i-would-note/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fe/david-harvey-10654_capital_one-of-the-curious-things-about-our-educ_2313978.jpg) > [“Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial manipulation, there lies a deeper process that entails the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/beyond-the-speculative-and-often-fraudulent-froth-that-characterizes/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25d/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_beyond-the-speculative-and-often-fraudul_2553875.jpg) ## Other authors on Harvey ## More by David Harvey > [The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neoliberalism-has-been-to/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/we-re-supposed-to-live-under-capitalism-and-capitalism-is-supposed-to/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/there-is-in-short-no-spatial-fix-that-can-contain-the-contradictions/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-social-relations-of-capitalism-have-penetrated-slowly-into-all/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/if-occupy-wall-street-can-see-their-way-to-more-collaboration-with/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [“This left, which strangely echoes a libertarian and even neoliberal ethic of ant-statism, is nurtured intellectually by thinkers such as Michel Foucault and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/this-left-which-strangely-echoes-a-libertarian-and-even-neoliberal/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/if-for-example-a-conspiratorially-minded-elite-is-so-powerful-has-at/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-equilibrium-between-supply-and-demand-is-achieved-only-through-a/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [“In urbanisation, the suburbs are just as monocultural (as agriculture), with a lifestyle that maximises the excessive consumption of material goods in an astonishingly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/in-urbanisation-the-suburbs-are-just-as-monocultural-as-agriculture/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [“Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreading of investment risks through the creation of derivative markets,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/since-the-1970s-financial-innova-tions-such-as-the-securitisation-of/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-only-solution-to-the-contradictions-of-capitalism-entails-the/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-accumulation-of-capital-involves-the-expansion-of-value-over-time/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/monetary-relations-have-penetrated-into-every-nook-and-cranny-of-the/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-net-worth-of-the-358-richest-people-in-the-world-was-then-found/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) > [Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/not-only-must-weapons-be-bought-and-paid-for-out-of-surpluses-of/) [David Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-harvey/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/harvey/david-harvey/#itemlist", "name": "5 Harvey Quotes By David Harvey", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under the rubric of ‘accumulation by dispossession’. By this I mean the continuation and proliferation of accumulation practices which Marx had treated of as ‘primitive’ or ‘original’ during the rise of capitalism. These include the commodification and privatization of land and the forceful expulsion of peasant populations (compare the cases, described above, of Mexico and of China, where 70 million peasants are thought to have been displaced in recent times); conversion of various forms of property rights (common, collective, state, etc.) into exclusive private property rights (most spectacularly represented by China); suppression of rights to the commons; commodification of labour power and the suppression of alternative (indigenous) forms of production and consumption; colonial, neocolonial, and imperial processes of appropriation of assets (including natural resources); monetization of exchange and taxation, particularly of land; the slave trade (which continues particularly in the sex industry); and usury, the national debt and, most devastating of all, the use of the credit system as a radical means of accumulation by dispossession.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Harvey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-harvey/the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neoliberalization-however-has/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/david-harvey-10654_capital-accumulation_the-main-substantive-achievement-of-neol_1325695.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to…” — David Harvey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. 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It is for this reason that Marx registers...a vigorous indictment of the anarchist Proudhon... Proudhon in effect took the specifics of bourgeois legal and economic relations and treated them as universal and foundational for the development of an alternative, socially just economic system. From Marx's standpoint, this is no alternative at all since it merely re-inscribes bourgeois conceptions of value in a supposedly new form of society. This problem is still with us, not only because of the contemporary anarchist revival of interest in Proudhon's ideas but also because of the rise of a more broad-based liberal human rights politics as a supposed antidote to the social and political ills of contemporary capitalism. Marx's critique of Proudhon is directly applicable to this contemporary politics. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is a foundational document for a bourgeois, market-based individualism and as such cannot provide a basis for a thoroughgoing critique of liberal or neoliberal capitalism. 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Crisis creation, management, and manipulation on the world stage has evolved into the fine art of deliberative redistribution of wealth from poor countries to the rich. I documented the impact of Volcker’s interest rate increase on Mexico earlier. While proclaiming its role as a noble leader organizing ‘bail-outs’ to keep global capital accumulation on track, the US paved the way to pillage the Mexican economy. This was what the US Treasury–Wall Street–IMF complex became expert at doing everywhere. Greenspan at the Federal Reserve deployed the same Volcker tactic several times in the 1990s. Debt crises in individual countries, uncommon during the 1960s, became very frequent during the 1980s and 1990s. Hardly any developing country remained untouched, and in some cases, as in Latin America, such crises became endemic. These debt crises were orchestrated, managed, and controlled both to rationalize the system and to redistribute assets. 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