Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

An article by Greg Lindsay of Fast Company Magazine: “David Harvey’s Urban Manifesto: Down With Suburbia; Down With Bloomberg’s New York“

Monday:
World Urban Forum, U.S. Social Forum: What’s Next?
A forum with Tom Angotti, Marnie Brady, David Harvey, Peter Marcuse, Kristofer Rios & Rob Robinson
The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, New York
Monday July 19th, 2010 7:30 PM
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15

Tuesday:
Experimental Geography Panel Discussion
With curator Nato Thompson, artists Lize Mogel and Trevor Paglen, and David Harvey
The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, New York
July 20, 2010 6:00 PM
Free, but reservation required

Interview:
Of human greed: Laurie Taylor interviews David Harvey for The New Humanist

Book Review:
The Enigma of Capital And the Crises of Capitalism reviewed by Bob Lloyd at Blog Critics Books.

Article:
“A financial Katrina? Geographical aspects of the financial crisis” in World Social Science Report 2010: Knowledge Divides by the International Social Science Council (ISCC) and UNESCO. Based on this lecture.

The Introduction to David Harvey’s recent book, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, is now available as a free PDF download:

Introduction to A Companion to Marx’s Capital (135k PDF)

Thanks to Verso for making the chapter available. A Companion to Marx’s Capital is now available on Amazon and in your local bookstores.

“David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals. Read this book…” Naomi Klein

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars.

Based on his recent online lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.

“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…”

Update: Read a review of A Companion to Marx’s Capital by Charles Mudede in the Seattle Stranger titled ‘The Crystals of Capital‘

From RSA Animate

Watch original lecture.

The latest issue of Interface: a journal for and about social movements features a special section called “Debating David Harvey”, devoted to the discussion of Professor Harvey’s recent essay “Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition“. That essay was delivered as a talk by Professor Harvey at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in 2010, and draws heavily from his latest book, The Enigma of Capital.

Debating David Harvey

David Harvey,
Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition (pp 243 – 261) [PDF]

Responses:

Willie Baptist,
A new and unsettling force: the strategic relevance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign (pp. 262 – 270) [PDF]

AK Thompson,
“Daily life” not a “moment” like the rest: notes on Harvey’s “Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition” (pp. 271 – 286) [PDF]

Benjamin Shepard,
Responding to Harvey: it’s all about organizing (pp. 287 – 297) [PDF]

Laurence Cox,
“The interests of the movement as a whole”: response to David Harvey (pp. 298 – 308) [PDF]

Anna Selmeczi,
Educating resistance (pp. 309 – 314) [PDF]

Marcelo Lopes de Souza,
Which right to which city? In defence of political-strategic clarity (pp. 315 – 333) [PDF]