Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

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Live-streamed course “Reading Marx’s Capital v1” starts Feb 5, 2019

January 28, 2019 /

A close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx’s Capital with Professor David Harvey.

This semester-long class meets on Tuesdays from 6:00pm – 8:00pm beginning on February 5th and ending on May 7th. It will be 12 weeks total, and will not meet on February 12 or April 23.

The required text for this course is Capital, Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx. The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for both the Penguin Classics and Vintage Books editions of Capital. Help finding the text.

Syllabus:

  • Class 1: Read the various prefaces and postfaces by Marx and Engles as well as the first section of Chapter One (“The Two Factors of the Commodity”), pages 89-131.
  • Class 2: Chapter One
  • Class 3: Chapters Two and Three
  • Class 4: Chapters Four, Five, and Six
  • Class 5: Chapters Seven, Eight, and Nine
  • Class 6: Chapters Ten and Eleven
  • Class 7: Chapters Twelve, Thirteen, and Fourteen
  • Class 8: Chapter 15 (first part)
  • Class 9: Chapter 15 (second part)
  • Class 10: Chapters 23 and 24
  • Class 11: Chapter 25
  • Class 12: Chapters 26-33

Videos:

David Harvey Video Lecture Series: Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History

December 27, 2016 /

Marx and Capital: The Concept, The Book, The History
A Series of Six Video Lectures in Political Economy by David Harvey

  1. CAPITAL AS VALUE IN MOTION
  2. VALUE AND ANTI-VALUE
  3. VALUE AND ITS MONETARY EXPRESSION
  4. THE SPACE AND TIME OF VALUE
  5. USE VALUES: THE PRODUCTION OF WANTS, NEEDS AND DESIRES
  6. BAD INFINITY AND THE MADNESS OF ECONOMIC REASON

The lectures in this series were given from September through December, 2016 at The Graduate Center, CUNY and sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.

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Survey: Help Assess “Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey”

March 17, 2015 /

Calling participants for a survey on open online education at davidharvey.org. The study aims to explore the intention, methods, and impact of using open online educational resources to teach political economy during and after the economic crisis.

If you have taken courses from davidharvey.org, please complete this survey.

The survey should take less than one hour to complete. It can be completed anonymously.

Debating Marx’s Crisis Theory & The Falling Rate of Profit

December 18, 2014 /

1. Video: A commentary on the falling rate of profit in Marx’s crisis theory. Izmir University of Economics – Workshop on The Great Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-created?

2. Paper: Crisis Theory and the Falling Rate of Profit by David Harvey

This is a draft of an essay to be published in 2015 in: The Great Meltdown of 2008: Systemic, Conjunctural or Policy-created? Editors: Turan Subasat (Izmir University of Economics) and John Weeks (SOAS, University of London); Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

3. Paper: Monomania and crisis theory – a reply to David Harvey by Michael Roberts

4. Blog Post: David Harvey, monomaniacs and the rate of profit by Michael Roberts

In Solidarity With Istanbul

June 3, 2013 /

In Solidarity With Istanbul

Taksim Solidarity Press Release Website | Blog

We have united in the streets; our struggle in the streets will prevail!

We will not let anyone touch our Gezi Park! We will not let anyone exploit our labor, our habitat or nature!

Our struggle, which sparkled five days ago at Taksim Istanbul Gezi Park, has spread out to streets, neighborhoods, town squares in Turkey and abroad, demonstrating the collective will of millions of people. The public has made a decision! We will not let anyone demolish the Gezi Park! From now on Gezi Park represents other atrocities and state terror like Taksim, Reyhanli, Roboski, and May 1st. From now on Gezi Park stands for labor, nature and freedom. The Park is an expression of a collective will to live in a democratic country despite state’s oppression and despite all fascist attacks to restrict freedom. From now on, everyone should know that this Park, the Taksim Square and all the public squares of this city, this country and this world are entrusted to labor, to laborers and to the people. We will not let AKP (Justice and Development Party) or the capitalists get their hands on these public spaces.

For those who have been expanding the struggle and resisting in every street during the last five days in the face of all kinds of oppression, violence, misinformation, manipulation and media censorship, we salute you! For those who are liberating public squares, we salute you! For those who are overcoming the obstacles, crossing the bridges, we salute you! And for those who are opening the doors of their houses and their schools to the resisters, we salute you all!

We declare once again: We are claiming Taksim in the name of our struggle and solidarity.

Our struggle over the last five days showed everyone that the attempt to create a culture of fear is futile. We stand fearless against the brute force, violence, imprisonments and anti-democratic attacks by the government. As we have uttered repeatedly in the squares: this is only the beginning; our struggle will continue!

Our current demands are as follows:

* Gezi Park will remain as a Park. We will not allow the destruction of the Park for the construction of a Topçu K??las? in Taksim! Nor will we let the government plunder nature or our habitat!

* The following parties should take responsibility and resign immediately: authorities who have prevented the people from exercising their democratic rights initially during the protests at the Gezi Park and in the following days throughout the demonstrations across the country; those who ordered the use of violence to oppress people; those who executed those orders, and those who have caused injuries to hundreds of people! The Mayor of Istanbul and the General Director of Turkish National Police should take primary responsibility and be the first to resign!

* Use of tear gas must be prohibited!

* Our friends under custody all over the country for participating in our struggle should be released immediately and no further investigations shall be pursued!

* All bans on demonstrations and meeting in all public spaces, Taksim square in particular, must be lifted.

This is the voice of the streets, the resistance and the people! We expect the government meet these demands without any reservation. We have united in the streets; we have realized the strength of solidarity; you have witnessed our power. We know that our struggle in the streets will prevail!

Taksim Solidarity!

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