David Harvey
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
- Reposted by David HarveyToday is Karl Marx's birthday. All books by and on Marx are on sale for up to 50% off as part of our Red May Sale.
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- Happy Birthday Karl Marx!
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- Joan Robinson pointed out that the economist’s production function (where Q the output is a function of labor and capital), lacks a satisfactory understanding of the units in which capital can be measured. [1/4]
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- The odd thing is that quite a few Marxist economists, led by Steedman's book on Marx after Sraffa, were the only ones to take Sraffa seriously as totally undermining their key concepts (e.g. the role of Marx’s labor theory of value). [1/3]
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- Reposted by David HarveyTerrific new @davidharvey.org essay on Sraffa, including this lovely coda about the course he co-taught at Hopkins in the 1990s with a young Mark Blyth... newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
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- “Piero and Me.” I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/issues/ii152...
- I’ll be speaking on the topic "Neoliberalism, Geopolitics, Crisis" at this event on Friday, April 11 10:10am–11:30am: Critique, Crisis, and Social Transformation: Celebrating Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky In person at @thenewschool.bsky.social and on Zoom. event.newschool.edu/nancyfraser-...
- King Canute believed he had absolute power to command the world. To prove his point the King took his throne down to the water's edge at low tide and commanded the tide not to rise… Several hours later with the water up to his neck, the King had to admit he was wrong. It's King Canute time.
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- German translation of the paths of value in motion. Thank you to Dr. Simon Dudek.
- New episode from Politics in Motion podcasts: Cities After… with Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán: [S4 E02] Neofascism is Destroyed by Confederal Urban Unions youtu.be/ruJ2ZWuPNQI?...
- Happy Red Books Day! Today is the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
- Tomorrow, February 21, 2025, is Red Books Day, marking the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. redbooksday.org
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- I sent my latest manuscript to @versobooks.bsky.social this weekend.
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- I'm going to be ending my Twitter presence soon, so this will be my only social media account.
- wage repression + rising rents = increasing homelessness youtu.be/4GViEF97_a8?...
- The financial situation produces the following paradox - that there are all these empty houses around and there are large numbers of people who have a lack of adequate housing.
- Join me for my new Anti-Capitalist Chronicles episode, "Blackstone, Neoliberalism, & the Housing Crisis" I talk about the relationship between wage repression, rising housing costs, & homelessness, & the system that prioritizes speculative profits over meeting basic needs youtu.be/4GViEF97_a8?...
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- Capital and the capitalist class sink their tentacles deep into the state apparatus, sometimes legitimately fulfilling contracts to build public infrastructures, military equipment, research institutes and the like but just as often through extensive schemes of corruption.
- Announcing the new season of Cities After with Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán: [S4 E01] Neofascism, Housing & Urbanization Prof. Robles-Durán examines the unsettling convergence of neoliberal urban policies & the rise of neofascist political movements. youtu.be/jrFcHK5ml0g?...
- “The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses, in the face of the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as if only the absolute consumption capacity of the society set a limit to them.” -Marx
- Class 5 of my Reading Marx's Capital volume 1 video course is now available with Malayalam subtitles, thanks to the incredible work of our friend Jagadees. Class 5 covers Chapters 7-9. youtu.be/7RmtkfVeK7w
- What the Democratic Party should have done is to articulate a program which is somehow or other going to alleviate the stresses that exist in the bottom 40-50% of the population. [1/8]
- Drill baby drill equals burn baby burn.
- Join me for the new season of my podcast, the Anti-Capitalist Chronicles. The latest episode is: Trumpism vs. Wage Justice. I talk about the challenges of addressing inflation and wage repression in the U.S. youtu.be/gVrmcf2fPOI?...
- The concept of scarcity is not natural but a product of capital’s marketing practices. Without scarcity, market prices could not form. If relative scarcity does not exist then it has to be created, if only to ensure market forces and allocations can function. [1/2]
- Any quest to retrieve for labor an unalienated relation to nature or to the land at some point entails an anti-capitalist politics that breaks the relation that ties labor so tightly to nature construed as a dead object devoid of any capacity itself to create value.
- There is nothing unnatural about New York City, anymore than there is anything unnatural about beavers building dams and ants and birds building nests.
