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Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
@davidharvey.orgReminder that there is no class on October 13th due to CUNY's academic calendar. Our next class will meet on October 20th when we will discuss Chapter 8: The Production of Space, Time and Place.
You can catch up on past classes here:
@davidharvey.orgThe video from the 4th class of my course, The Story of Capital, is now available. We discussed Chapter 6, The Equalization of the Profit Rate & Chapter 7, Masses in Motion.
@histmat.bsky.socialReposted by @davidharvey.orgHistorical Materialism is sorry to learn of the passing of Anwar Shaikh. We repost this interview with Shaikh from 2021 and will endeavour to get something published on our website remembering his person and legacy.
@davidharvey.organd is thereby condemned to live and work under such appalling conditions in the midst of astonishing privatized affluence. In other words, the value theory is about the production and reproduction of class relations, not about relative price formation.
@davidharvey.orgMarx’s value theory is not aimed at deriving relative prices (Marx explicitly says so in a number of places). It is primarily designed to explain the mechanisms by which a working class which produces the value receives so little of it
@davidharvey.orgReposted by @davidharvey.orgToday at 4:15 pm [ET] we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapter 6, The Equalization of the Profit Rate & Chapter 7, Masses in Motion.
@davidharvey.orgToday at 4:15 pm [ET] we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapter 6, The Equalization of the Profit Rate & Chapter 7, Masses in Motion.
@davidharvey.orgFree registration for the virtual class is available here:
@davidharvey.orgCatch up on past classes here:
@davidharvey.orgOur next class will meet tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th at 4:15 pm [ET] when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapter 6, The Equalization of the Profit Rate & Chapter 7, Masses in Motion.
@davidharvey.orgFrom The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, published by
@davidharvey.org‘This’ is often cited as if it refers to the theory of the falling rate of profit on its own. But the original text (and the referent of ‘this’ in it) indicates that it is the relation between a falling rate and a rising mass that is ‘the most important law’.
@davidharvey.orgIt is the most important law from the historical standpoint. It is a law which, despite its simplicity, has never before been grasped, and even less, consciously articulated.” (p. 748)
@davidharvey.orgIn the Grundrisse, Marx says, “This is in every respect the most important law of modern political economy, and the most essential for understanding the most difficult relations.
@davidharvey.orgWe meet again next Tuesday, October 6th at 4:15 pm [ET]. Please read The Story of Capital, Chapters 6 & 7 for that class.
@davidharvey.orgThe video from the 3rd class of my course, The Story of Capital, is now available. We discussed Chapter 4: Marx in Manchester, and Chapter 5: The Falling Rate and Rising Mass of Profit.
@davidharvey.orgI was happy to receive the Chinese edition of my book, The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, yesterday. Thanks to @plutopress.bsky.social
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@versobooks.bsky.socialReposted by @davidharvey.orgOut today! The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by @sunraysunray.bsky.social, @benburgis.bsky.social and @mikejbeggs.bsky.social
"This is a book to 'pry open our imaginations and put the biggest questions of politics back on the table.'"
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@davidharvey.orgJoin me live in one hour at 4:15 pm [ET] when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapters 4 and 5, with a particular emphasis on Chapter 5, "The Falling Rate and Rising Mass of Profit".
