Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Upcoming Speaking Engagements in London & Bristol

Apr 3rd, 2012 by process

Thursday, May 10, 2012
Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle
LSE Cities and Department of Geography and Environment public lecture
London School of Economics
Old Theatre, Old Building
6:30-8:00 pm

Friday, May 11, 2012
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Bristol Festival of Ideas
6:00-7:00 pm

July 5-9, 2012
Marxism 2012 Conference: Ideas to Change the World
Central London
More info to come

Financial Times Reviews Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Mar 23rd, 2012 by process

Edwin Heathcote has reviewed Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution for the Financial Times: Street level: The beginning of a new era in public protest.

Rebel Cities is published by Verso Books and is available now on Amazon.com and soon on Amazon.co.uk.

Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 Audio Files (MP3s) Now Available

Mar 18th, 2012 by process

Audio files (MP3s) are now available for Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Harvey.

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• Class 2 MP3
• Class 3 MP3

More classes and file formats coming soon.

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Help Make the Capital Lectures More Accessible

Oct 21st, 2011 by process

Do you have a few minutes to spare to help make the Capital lectures available to speakers of languages other than English? We are making good progress in the Capital Lectures Transcription and Translation Project. We are now focused on correcting the English transcription of the first five lectures. To help, go to this site and choose one of the first five lectures. Watch the lecture in YouTube with closed captions turned on (just click the CC button in the lower right of the window), and correct any errors you find on our wiki.

After this is complete, volunteer translators will begin translating the subtitles into other languages. We already have volunteers ready to begin translating into Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Persian, Slovene, and Spanish. We just need a little help making sure we have an accurate English transcript for them to work with.

If you are a native English speaker or equivalent, please help this project here. Thank you!

Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 2 – Class 3, Chapters 4-6

Feb 17th, 2012 by process

Capital, Volume 2
Chapter 4: The Three Figures of the Circuit
Chapter 5: Circulation Time
Chapter 6: The Costs of Circulation

The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for the Penguin Classics editions of Capital Volumes 2 and 3.

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Class 1 Files: Audio MP3 (80.1 MB)

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© 2012 David Harvey

Reading Marx’s Capital Volume II with David Harvey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

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Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 2 – Class 2, Chapters 1-3

Feb 7th, 2012 by process

Capital, Volume 2
Chapter 1: The Circuit of Money Capital
Chapter 2: The Circuit of Productive Capital
Chapter 3: The Circuit of Commodity Capital

The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for the Penguin Classics editions of Capital Volumes 2 and 3.

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Class 2 Files: Audio MP3 (73.5 MB)

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Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 2 – Class 1, Introduction

Jan 26th, 2012 by process

This is the first class of a free semester-long open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx’s Capital Volume 2 (plus parts of Volume 3) in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Anthropology and Geography PhD programs. This course was taught at Union Theological Seminary in Spring 2011, and was attended by graduate students and activists from across New York City.

Subsequent videos will be available every one to two weeks. Initially the videos will be available only on YouTube. Additional file formats and podcasts will be available soon.

The page numbers Professor Harvey refers to are valid for the Penguin Classics editions of Capital Volumes 2 and 3.

Thanks to the over 300 small donors who made this project possible.

Listen now:

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Class 1 Files: Audio MP3 (70.6 MB)

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© 2012 David Harvey

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New Book Coming This April – Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

Jan 17th, 2012 by process

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
To be published in April 2012 by Verso Books. Available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk now.

Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people?

Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

RSA Crises of Capitalism Talk Animated

Jun 29th, 2010 by admin

From RSA Animate

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The Enigma of Capital named a Guardian Book of the Year

Dec 9th, 2011 by process

Paul Mason of the Guardian writes that The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is “the most complete Marxist attempt to situate the global crisis in the context of the irresolvable tensions of a system based on ‘self-expanding money’”. Read his article Books for Giving: Economics / Responses to the global financial meltdown.

The US paperback edition is published by Oxford University Press and is available now on Amazon.com.

The UK paperback edition is published by Profile Books and is available now via Amazon.co.uk and Waterstones.com.

The Enigma of Capital is the winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Read the review in the London Review of Books.