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David Harvey on Capitalism

born 1935 England

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If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

Any sensible person right now would join an anti-capitalist organisation.

RSA ANIMATE: Crises of Capitalism . RSA on Youtube (2010)

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.

The Limits To Capital (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Harvey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.