David Harvey quotes - page 2

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital. (David Harvey)
Capital creates space-time. View quote
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The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times. View quote
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The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses. View quote
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The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war. View quote
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Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life. View quote
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The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time. View quote
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But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers. View quote
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workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings. View quote
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If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible. View quote
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A work of this sort admits no conclusion. (David Harvey)
The dominant notion of rationality is a capitalist notion of rationality, that is, whatever is profitable, whatever can be organised in terms of social control of labour-power and control of natural resources. View quote
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There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement. View quote
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Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class. View quote
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We have, Marx asserts, built a vast social enterprise which dominates us, delimits our freedoms and ultimately visits upon us the worst forms of degradation. View quote
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It's important to recognize the class origins of this project, which occurred in the 1970s when the capitalist class was in a great deal of difficulty, workers were well organized and were beginning to push back. Like any ruling class, they needed ruling ideas. So, the ruling ideas were that freedom of the market, privatization, entrepreneurialism of the self, individual liberty and all the rest of it should be the ruling ideas of a new social order, and that was the order that got implemented in the 1980s and 1990s. View quote
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The inner logic that governs the laws of motion of capitalism is cold, ruthless and inexorable, responsive only to the law of value. Yet value is a social relation, a product of a particular historical process. Human beings were organizers, creators and participants in that history. We have, Marx asserts, built a vast social enterprise which dominates us, delimits our freedoms and ultimately visits upon us the worst forms of degradation. View quote
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