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The Enigma of Capital is now available via Amazon UK.
English Marxist Thinker Speaks About the Trends of Capital Globo TV, Brazil
April 12, 2010
(Introduction in Portuguese, Interview in English with Portuguese subtitles)
The Enigma of Capital
Monday 26 April 2010 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Department of Geography public lecture
London School of Economics, Old Theatre, Old Building
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.
For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
The Enigma of Capital
Tuesday 27 April 2010 6:30 pm
Great Hall, Strand, King’s College London (venue changed)
Free but please arrive early to avoid disappointment (Doors open 6pm).
For more info contact kclreadingcapital@gmail.com
The Crisis of Capitalism
Wednesday 28 April 2010 6:45 pm
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
£12 / £11 Concessions / £10 ICA Members Book tickets here
David Harvey’s new book, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, has been published by Verso and is now available on Amazon and in your local bookstore.
“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…”
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.
“David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals. Read this book…” Naomi Klein
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 growth (generally considered the minimum satisfactory growth rate for a healthy capitalist economy) is becoming less and less feasible to sustain without resort to all manner of fictions (such as those that have characterized asset markets and financial affairs over the last two decades). There are good reasons to believe that there is no alternative to a new global order of governance that will eventually have to manage the transition to a zero growth economy. If that is to be done in an equitable way, then there is no alternative to socialism or communism. Since the late 1990s, the World Social Forum became the center for articulating the theme “another world is possible.” It must now take up the task of defining how another socialism or communism is possible and how the transition to these alternatives are to be accomplished. The current crisis offers a window of opportunity to reflect on what might be involved.
A close reading of the text of Karl Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by David Harvey. Start here
David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at 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 nearly 40 years. Read his CV.
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