David Harvey

Mon 11.15.10| Harvey on Left Organization; Coyle on Cutting the Work Week

David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism Oxford, 2010

Eugene P. Coyle, "Cut the Work Week," CounterPunch


 

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In a moment of economic crisis, what should our demands be and how should we hope to win them? Geographer David Harvey talks about organizing ourselves for life after capitalism, while resource economist Eugene Coyle discusses why unemployment is not solved by perpetual growth. He argues that it's time for labor and the left to again raise the banner of cutting the work week.

Tues 10.12.10| David Harvey on Capitalism and its Crises

David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism Oxford, 2010

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

 

 

What drives capitalism and why does it break down? Celebrated Marxist geographer David Harvey argues the answer lies with the lifeblood of the system, capital. He examines how capital encounters barriers -- such as labor and nature -- which it is driven to overcome by busting unions, forcing down wages, and fostering urbanization, and through technological and organizational innovations. Harvey talks about how the transcendence of certain barriers to high rates of growth can lead to the creation of new ones.

Tues 1.05.10| Harvey on the City and Neoliberalism

What role does urbanization play within the surplus-generating dynamics of capitalism? And what part do cities play in fueling or abating economic crises? Pioneering Marxist geographer David Harvey talks about 19th century Paris and New York City in the 1970s and how neoliberalism has shaped the city.

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