Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

Continuing the success of Professor Harvey’s online video lectures of Marx’s Capital, Volume I, we are currently raising money to continue the project with new lectures on Capital Volumes II and III.

Inspired by the overwhelming interest in the Volume I lectures, which according to Google Analytics have logged over 700,000 page views from 10,884 cities in 187 countries since June 2008, we are happy to announce the next stage of this project.

Professor Harvey is planning on teaching a semester class on Capital Volumes II and III in the Spring of 2011. With your help, we plan to film, edit, and post a new set of free online videos to this site. To do this, we need to raise our budget of $10,000.

Support this project by making a tax-deductible donation today.

Numerous people have emailed to inquire about the US release date of The Enigma of Capital. The book is currently set to be published by Oxford University Press on September 1st of this year.

The Enigma of Capital was released in the UK on April 15th by Profile Books, and is currently available from Amazon UK. It has been reviewed by The Independent and the Financial Times.

Professor Harvey went on a speaking tour of London in support of the book.  You can watch several of his lectures online:

• The RSA April 26
• London School of Economics April 26
• King’s College April 27

Professor Harvey also gave several press interviews which you can watch or listen to here:

• BBC News Hard Talk May 5
• BBC World Service The Forum May 2
• BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed April 28
• The Guardian ‘The Business’ Podcast April 28

As of today, Wednesday July 14, we are experiencing difficulties with our streaming videos of the Capital lectures.  Our provider, Blip.tv, is currently working to resolve the issue and we hope to have the streaming videos back online asap. In the mean time, you can still download the videos either from this site or from iTunes and watch them on your computer.  Apologies for the inconvenience.

Update July 15: Classes 7-12 are now being streamed via Vimeo, while classes 1-6 and 13 remain with Blip.tv. All classes are again accessible via streaming video.

Are we seeing the end of capitalism?
David Harvey interviewed on ‘HARDtalk’
BBC News
5 May 2010

“Professor David Harvey on the need to think of alternatives to capitalism as endless growth is no longer a possibility. ”

Watch trailer | Watch in UK | Watch outside of UK: (part 1) (part 2) (part 3)

The Crises of Capitalism
The RSA, London
26 April 26 2010