Figure 1: Circulation of Capital
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
Readings for this class: The Story of Capital Chapter 9.
Readings for next class on November 3rd: The Story of Capital Chapter 10.
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Figure 1: Circulation of Capital
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
Readings for this class: The Story of Capital Chapter 8.
Readings for next class on October 27th: The Story of Capital Chapter 9.
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Figure 1: Circulation of Capital
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
Readings for this class: The Story of Capital Chapters 6 & 7.
Reminder no class on October 13th.
Readings for next class on October 20th: The Story of Capital Chapter 8.
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September 29, 2026
Figure 1: Circulation of Capital
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
Readings for this class: The Story of Capital Chapters 4 & 5.
Readings for next class: The Story of Capital Chapters 6 & 7.
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September 15, 2026
Figure 3: The Circulation of Labour Capacity
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
Readings for this class: The Story of Capital: Chapters 2 and 3
Readings for next class: The Story of Capital Chapters 4 & 5.
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September 8, 2026
Figure 1: Circulation of Capital
Figure 2: Path of Argument in Marx’s Capital v1
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
We had some audio issues with this class, but hope to have them resolved for future classes.
Readings for this class: The Story of Capital: Preface, Chapters 1
Readings for next class: The Story of Capital: Chapters 2 and 3
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Join us for a public virtual livestream of Prof. David Harvey’s course The Story of Capital. The course entails a close reading of the recent book The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know about How Capital Works by David Harvey.
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx’s work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter – sometimes line-by-line – Marx’s three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.
In The Story of Capital, Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides us through the key moments, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.
The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 15, 2026. Register for the virtual course here.
Download the course schedule.
View the YouTube playlist
This is the 8th semester-long virtual course on Marx that Professor Harvey has made available for free. You can take any of those past courses here.
Doomscroll Podcast with Joshua Citarella
Whitney Museum of American Art
July 28, 2026
The Story of Capital is available now from Verso Books.
The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.
By Max Holleran
The New Republic
July 27, 2026
For over a half century, David Harvey has been a central figure in Marxist debates around the future of capitalism. He is not a firebrand with a septum piercing, nor is he a holdover European radical in the mold of the political parties Podemos or La France Insoumise, for whom the spirit of 1968 never died. Rather, Harvey is an academic geographer who has been reading Karl Marx’s 1,200-page tome Capital (Das Kapital) with his students since the early 1970s, first at Johns Hopkins and then the CUNY Graduate Center in New York. For decades, this close reading was an exercise in scholarly perseverance for those striving to get a grip on the fine details of left political economy. But during the 2007–2008 economic crisis, that all changed: Harvey went from a noted academic to something akin to a Marxist prophet.
Andy Merrifield’s Roses for Gramsci, a highly personal history of the Italian thinker and his work, examines his influence across generations.
Book Review by Aditya Bahl
The Nation
June 3, 2026
Fifty years after Selections From the Prison Notebooks was first published in 1971, the joke remains popular: Antonio Gramsci is a communist you can bring home to your parents. It wouldn’t matter if they were liberals or Maoists, social democrats or anti-imperialists, populists or pacifists—everyone gets along with Antonio.
The reasons for Gramsci’s popularity, as well as his pliability, lie in the unique form of his oeuvre. His themes, for one, are startlingly capacious: serial novels and popular theater, factory councils and peasant estates, Catholicism and communism, newspaper design and comparative grammar, folklore and opera. There’s something here for everyone. At the same time, Gramsci’s prison writing—over 3,000 pages across 33 notebooks—is peppered with myriad “Aesopian” codes and terms. These ciphers were originally intended to confound Benito Mussolini’s Fascist censors, but their diffuse meanings have since triggered a series of heated polemics. And so, apart from attracting an unusually diverse readership, Gramsci’s work has also spawned diverse, frequently disparate, interpretations.
 A Companion to Marx's GrundrisseVerso Books 2023 |
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The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles 
Pluto Press2020 |
 A Companion To Marx's Capital: The Complete EditionVerso Books 2018 |
 Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic ReasonOxford University Press 2017 |
 The Ways of the WorldOxford University Press 2016 |
 Seventeen Contradictions and the End of CapitalismOxford University Press 2014 |
 A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2
Verso 2013 |
 Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution Verso 2012 |
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