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 and miss. Gaps and lacuna show up all the time. For example, I’m 77 years old and just now getting into Marx. I don’t know why it took so long, but it was worth the wait. The guy is a truly outstanding writer, when he wants to be, and he loves footnotes as much as I do. If you follow them along you find that he is sometimes witty and often sarcastic, stunningly well read, and really smart. Continue Reading »
Chapter 5: “Capital Evolves” from David Harvey’s recent book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available as a free PDF download:
Thanks to Profile Books for making the chapter available. The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism has been released in paperback in the UK by Profile Books. The second edition features a new afterword. Available now via Amazon.co.uk and waterstones.com.
The paperback edition of The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available from Profile Books with a new afterword. Video produced by Red Mist Films.
Update. This event will occur as scheduled, however, Vijay Prashad will not be able to attend. Monday, August 29, 2011 Tropic of Chaos: The Catastrophic Convergence of Poverty, Violence, and Climate Change
Christian Parenti in conversation with Vijay Prashad and David Harvey
CUNY Graduate Center | The James Gallery
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street, NYC | 7:00-9:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 The End of Capitalism?
Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities
Penn Humanities Forum
Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Philadelphia | 5:00-6:30 pm
Free and open to the public. Pre-registration required.
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 it is very important that we do just that.
One such model can be extracted from the works of Karl Marx and however abhorrent his political views might be to many, we ignore his insights at our peril. So here is a Marx parable that has interesting relevance to our present circumstance. Continue Reading »
Professor Harvey taught a semester-long course on Marx’s Capital Volume II (including parts of Volume III) at Union Theological Seminary in the Spring 2011 semester. The class was attended by graduate students from Union Theological Seminary, CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia, Fordham, New York Theological Seminary, New York University, and the Brecht Forum. A series of interviews were filmed of Professor Harvey – four students asked him about the experience of teaching Volume II. Thanks to over 250 small donors to this site, the budget to complete this project has been raised. Now over 55 hours of tape have to be edited. Our film editor will be working over the summer, and we hope to start posting the new videos to this site this Fall.
A close reading of the text of Karl Marx's Capital in free video lectures by David Harvey. Start here
David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and author of numerous books. He has been teaching Karl Marx's Capital for over 40 years. Read his CV.
This article originally appeared in The Advocate: The Progressive Voice of Coos County, Oregon, July 2011.
