David Harvey quotes

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people. (David Harvey)
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run. View quote
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If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world. View quote
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Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale. View quote
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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space. View quote
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Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. View quote
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Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value. View quote
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Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. View quote
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Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital. View quote
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The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium. View quote
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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist. (David Harvey)
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. View quote
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate. View quote
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The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin. View quote
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The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. View quote
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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism. View quote
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Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise. View quote
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Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities. View quote
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Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. View quote
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All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe. View quote
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If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained? (David Harvey)
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism. View quote
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Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production? View quote
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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism. View quote
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Money must exist before it can be turned into capital. View quote
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