There’s a new wind blowing across this globalized world, from Tunisia to Egypt to Greece to Spain to Occupy Wall Street. How do the theoretical investigations of this site relate to this, to what’s new and emerging? This question of the emergence of novelty, of understanding this very changing world so as to help to [...]
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Marx’ theory and the crisis this time
As this review of his two most recent books observes, David Harvey has been engaged in constructing a synthesis of Marx’ views on the causes of capitalist crises for several decades, and has, in The Enigma of Capital, written the first “book-length example of Marxian crisis theory addressed to the current situation.” This appeared in [...]
Causes of capitalist crises — and this one
Let’s continue to talk a little more about capital and the crisis. We’ve featured David Harvey previously, but the following gives perhaps a more overall sketch of his theory of the present crisis and of capitalist crises in general, which he sees as potentially arising from any of a number of possible blockage points in [...]
The crisis now, and possible futures
I was able to attend one session of the Global Crisis: Rethinking Economy and Society conference last weekend at the University of Chicago, and want to give a bit of a report on some some of the talks. The conference was hosted by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT, as they style themselves), at [...]
How does capital overcome its own limits? And can it continue to do so?
We will soon (hopefully) be doing a review here of David Harvey’s excellent new book, The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism. In the meantime this is a report, from Lenin’s Tomb, on a talk Harvey gave last year. Many of the approaches and arguments in the book are (unsurprisingly) sketched and foreshadowed [...]
How can communism be brought about?
David Harvey has recently published two notable books. One, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, is essentially a text version of his introductory course of lectures on Capital. (The book is not a transcription of the lectures, but a written work encompassing the same territory.) The other is an approach to the analysis of the current [...]
Capitalist crisis and left response
Perhaps no one has done so much on the contemporary scene to simultaneously advance and popularize a Marxist political economy as David Harvey, who has recently published A Companion to Marx’s Capital and The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism. This interview appeared recently in International Socialist Review. I don’t see a unified [...]
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