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    Remarks on recent events in the Ukraine: An Interim Statement

    Originally published: Focaal Blog on February 25, 2022 (more by Focaal Blog)

    The outbreak of full-fledged war with the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a deep turning point in the world order.  As such it cannot be ignored by the geographers assembled (alas by zoom) at our annual meeting, I therefore offer some non-expert comments as a basis for discussion.

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    Anti-capitalist politics in the time of COVID-19

    Originally published: Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey on march 19, 2020 (more by Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey)

    When trying to interpret, understand and analyze the daily flow of news, I tend to locate what is happening against the background of two distinctive but intersecting models of how capitalism works. 

  • Anti-Capitalist Chronicles- Accumulation by Dispossession

    Anti-capitalist chronicles: Accumulation by Dispossession

    Originally published: Democracy at Work on May 23, 2019 (more by Democracy at Work)  |

    Large capital takes over smaller capital and in the end you get a quasi monopolistic situation of the large capitalist dominating all else.

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    Marx for the 21st century with David Harvey

    Originally published: David Harvey Blog on February 5, 2018 (more by David Harvey Blog)

    Marx’s ‘Capital’ is one of the most important texts of the modern era and continues to resonate today. Professor David Harvey, the world’s leading expert on Karl Marx, explains the continued importance of Marx’s analysis and how we can apply it to today’s economy and society.

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    Leading Marxist scholar David Harvey on Trump

    Originally published: The Intercept on January 21, 2018 (more by The Intercept)  |

    For the past year,, we have all experienced an intense sort of political vertigo. Of course, part of this is due to the fact that Donald Trump is president and constantly scoops the story of the latest outrage about himself by performing yet another outrage just as we start discussing the previous one.

  • David Harvey

    FreshEd #100: A Marxist critique of higher education

    Originally published: Fresh Ed Podcast on December 18, 2017 by Will Brehm (more by Fresh Ed Podcast)

    To celebrate the 100th episode of FreshEd, I’ve saved an interview with a very special guest.

  • Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

    David Harvey: Marx, Capital and the madness of economic reason

    Originally published: Radical Political Economy on June 26, 2017 by David Fields (more by Radical Political Economy)

    David Harvey, one of the most influential figures in geography and urban studies, and among the most cited intellectuals of all time across the humanities and social sciences, delivered a featured lecture, “Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason.” at the 2017 AAG annual Meeting.

  • The Enigma of Capital and the Crisis This Time

    David Harvey

    Paper prepared for the American Sociological Association Meetings in Atlanta, August 16th, 2010. There are many explanations for the crisis of capital that began in 2007.  But the one thing missing is an understanding of “systemic risks.”  I was alerted to this when Her Majesty the Queen visited the London School of Economics and asked […]

  • The Crises of Capitalism

    David Harvey

    “The thesis . . . is that in many ways the form of the current crisis is dictated very much by the way we came out of the last one.” — David Harvey, 26 April 2010 David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York, Director of the Center for Place, […]

  • Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition

    David Harvey

    The historical geography of capitalist development is at a key inflexion point in which the geographical configurations of power are rapidly shifting at the very moment when the temporal dynamic is facing very serious constraints.  Three-percent compound annual growth (generally considered the minimum satisfactory growth rate for a healthy capitalist economy) is becoming less and […]

  • Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

    David Harvey

      David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY) and author of various books.  He has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I for nearly 40 years.  Help keep this open course online: donate.

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    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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