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Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis David Harvey Verso Books Blog October 28, 2011 The Party of Wall Street has ruled unchallenged in the United States for far too long. It has totally (as opposed to partially) dominated the policies of Presidents over at least four decades (if not [...]

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Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets

Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets by David Harvey 11 August 2011 “Nihilistic and feral teenagers” the Daily Mail called them: the crazy youths from all walks of life who raced around the streets mindlessly and desperately hurling bricks, stones and bottles at the cops while looting here and setting bonfires there, leading the authorities on [...]

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New article in the Socialist Register 2012: The Crisis and the Left. Available now for subscribers and through many universities here.  Otherwise, look for it in your local bookstore in December, or pre-order on Amazon. Abstract: In an article in the New York Times on 5 February 2011, entitled ‘Housing Bubbles Are Few and Far Between’, [...]

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Karl Marx by Lionel Youst

This article originally appeared in The Advocate: The Progressive Voice of Coos County, Oregon, July 2011. Karl Marx by Lionel Youst My life as an autodidact began when I dropped out of North Bend High School following my Freshman year. Since then I’ve tried to learn something new every day but it’s kind of hit [...]

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The Vote to End Capitalism

How does capitalism get reproduced over time? This question has puzzled political economists from the seventeenth century onwards. Many simple models have been devised to answer this very complex question. While none of them are fully satisfactory, many insights are to be had from studying them and in these times of deep and frustrating troubles [...]

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May Day is the occasion we celebrate the grand achievements of the workers of the world in making our world a far, far better place to live in. There is, unfortunately, not too much to celebrate these days. The past 30 years are littered with battles and skirmishes that have resulted in defeat after defeat [...]

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THE ENIGMA OF CAPITAL AND THE CRISIS THIS TIME (paper prepared for the American Sociological Association Meetings in Atlanta, August 16th, 2010) David Harvey 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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

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Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist Transition David Harvey Talk given at the World Social Forum 2010 Porto Alegre 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 [...]

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