David Harvey Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.
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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.
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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
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The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
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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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Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.
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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.
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The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.
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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
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The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.
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There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.
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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.