David Harvey Quotes

United States, Anthropologist
October 31, 1935

David W. Harvey FBA is the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.

Also known as Geographer, Professor

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

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- Space
- Hand
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.

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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.

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- Money
Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

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The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.

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- Time
- Value
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

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- Value
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

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- Money

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

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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.

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- Political
- Wall
The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

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- War
- Military
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

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- Power
- Financial
Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

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- Life
- World
There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

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- Long