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… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
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.… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“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 those who have reassembled postmodern fragmentations under the banner of a largely incomprehensible post-structuralism that favours identity politicsand eschews class analysis. Autonomist, anarchist, and localist perspectives and actions are everywhere in evidence. But to the degree… — David Harvey Copy Share
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,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“In urbanisation, the suburbs are just as monocultural (as agriculture), with a lifestyle that maximises the excessive consumption of material goods in an astonishingly wasteful manner and with isolating and individualising social effects. Capital dominates the practices whereby we collectively and even individually relate to nature. It disregards anything other than functionalist aesthetic values. In its ruinous approach to the… — David Harvey Copy Share
“Since the 1970S, financial innovations such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreading of investment risks through the creation of derivative markets,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
