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Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
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Happy Red Books Day! Today is the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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Tomorrow, February 21, 2025, is Red Books Day, marking the 177th anniversary of the publishing of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. redbooksday.org

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Reading the new translation of Capital after not really picking it up for about five years. Had to pull out my old notebooks from @davidharvey.org’s 2007 Reading Marx’s Capital course — still a crucial guide!

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I sent my latest manuscript to @versobooks.bsky.social this weekend.

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David Harvey 2006: “The other strategy, which has been longstanding in US imperial history, is to find a local strong person — usually a man, a strong man — who will do your bidding and you will support him and you will give him assets and give him military assistance.” mronline.org/2006/06/19/o...

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I'm going to be ending my Twitter presence soon, so this will be my only social media account.

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wage repression + rising rents = increasing homelessness youtu.be/4GViEF97_a8?...

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The financial situation produces the following paradox - that there are all these empty houses around and there are large numbers of people who have a lack of adequate housing.

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Join me for my new Anti-Capitalist Chronicles episode, "Blackstone, Neoliberalism, & the Housing Crisis" I talk about the relationship between wage repression, rising housing costs, & homelessness, & the system that prioritizes speculative profits over meeting basic needs youtu.be/4GViEF97_a8?...

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This lecture that goes into chapters 4 and 5 of Capital and around the 40' mark @davidharvey.org gives some really succinct summaries of capital, what the capitalist class is, and generally a summary of Capital. a good listen over your coffee! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdMr...

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Capital and the capitalist class sink their tentacles deep into the state apparatus, sometimes legitimately fulfilling contracts to build public infrastructures, military equipment, research institutes and the like but just as often through extensive schemes of corruption.

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Announcing the new season of Cities After with Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán: [S4 E01] Neofascism, Housing & Urbanization Prof. Robles-Durán examines the unsettling convergence of neoliberal urban policies & the rise of neofascist political movements. youtu.be/jrFcHK5ml0g?...

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“The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses, in the face of the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as if only the absolute consumption capacity of the society set a limit to them.” -Marx

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Class 5 of my Reading Marx's Capital volume 1 video course is now available with Malayalam subtitles, thanks to the incredible work of our friend Jagadees. Class 5 covers Chapters 7-9. youtu.be/7RmtkfVeK7w

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What the Democratic Party should have done is to articulate a program which is somehow or other going to alleviate the stresses that exist in the bottom 40-50% of the population. [1/8]

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Drill baby drill equals burn baby burn.

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Join me for the new season of my podcast, the Anti-Capitalist Chronicles. The latest episode is: Trumpism vs. Wage Justice. I talk about the challenges of addressing inflation and wage repression in the U.S. youtu.be/gVrmcf2fPOI?...

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The concept of scarcity is not natural but a product of capital’s marketing practices. Without scarcity, market prices could not form. If relative scarcity does not exist then it has to be created, if only to ensure market forces and allocations can function. [1/2]

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Any quest to retrieve for labor an unalienated relation to nature or to the land at some point entails an anti-capitalist politics that breaks the relation that ties labor so tightly to nature construed as a dead object devoid of any capacity itself to create value.

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There is nothing unnatural about New York City, anymore than there is anything unnatural about beavers building dams and ants and birds building nests.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

The classical theorizations of bourgeois political economy neglect spatio-temporality for the simple reason that their a-spatial theories of supply and demand equilibrium collapse when spatial differentiations and the qualities of place and location are introduced.

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In 2025, recruit some friends & read Marx together. I've made some free courses to help: • Reading Capital v1 • Reading Capital v2 • Reading the Grundrisse • Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason • The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

The contradictory unity between value creation in production and realization in the market is foundational for Marx in the same way that the contradictory unity between the rate and mass of profit is also central to his theorizing.

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Capital wants to keep the value of labor power as low as possible by reducing the material standard of living of the laborer to a bare minimum. Individual capitalists drive down the wages of their own employees but look to their rivals to raise wages to increase consumption capacity in the market.

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