David Harvey

David Harvey

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Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH

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Here's the video from the 5th class of my course, The Story of Capital. We discussed Chapter 8: The Production of Space, Time & Place. For our next class on October 27th we will discuss Chapter 9: Social Reproduction and the Circulation of Labour Power davidharvey.org/2026/10/the-...

davidharvey.orgThe Story of Capital – Class 5Figure 1: Circulation of Capital The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 1, 2026. Register for the virtual course here. Readings for this class: …
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For next week's class on October 27 please read the Story of Capital Chapter 9: Social Reproduction and the Circulation of Labour Power

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I hear that Trump is in conversation with Putin and Xi Jinping. I wonder what about? A concerted cyber attack on Election Day by Russia and/or China would be easy to arrange. We have seen some small test runs on hospitals, etc.

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The infrastructures of the USA are poorly protected and easy to break down at least for a few days. Trump could declare a national emergency to cope with the chaos and he can easily take total control. -DH

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Reminder - no class tomorrow, October 13th, due to CUNY's academic calendar. Our next class will meet on October 20th when we will discuss Chapter 8: The Production of Space, Time and Place. You can catch up on past classes here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.comThe Story of Capital w/ David Harvey - YouTubeJoin us for a public virtual livestream of Prof. David Harvey’s course The Story of Capital. The course entails a close reading of the recent book The Story ...
David Harvey
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Reminder - no class tomorrow, October 13th, due to CUNY's academic calendar. Our next class will meet on October 20th when we will discuss Chapter 8: The Production of Space, Time and Place. You can catch up on past classes here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.comThe Story of Capital w/ David Harvey - YouTubeJoin us for a public virtual livestream of Prof. David Harvey’s course The Story of Capital. The course entails a close reading of the recent book The Story ...
David Harvey
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Reminder that there is no class on October 13th due to CUNY's academic calendar. Our next class will meet on October 20th when we will discuss Chapter 8: The Production of Space, Time and Place. You can catch up on past classes here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.comThe Story of Capital w/ David Harvey - YouTubeJoin us for a public virtual livestream of Prof. David Harvey’s course The Story of Capital. The course entails a close reading of the recent book The Story ...

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Historical Materialism is sorry to learn of the passing of Anwar Shaikh. We repost this interview with Shaikh from 2021 and will endeavour to get something published on our website remembering his person and legacy.

historicalmaterialism.orgAn interview with Anwar Shaikh - Historical MaterialismProfessor Anwar Shaikh is professor of Economics in the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science at The New School for Social Research in New York City, where he has taught since 1972. He is a...
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Marx’s value theory is not aimed at deriving relative prices (Marx explicitly says so in a number of places). It is primarily designed to explain the mechanisms by which a working class which produces the value receives so little of it

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and is thereby condemned to live and work under such appalling conditions in the midst of astonishing privatized affluence. In other words, the value theory is about the production and reproduction of class relations, not about relative price formation.

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Our next class will meet tomorrow, Tuesday October 6th at 4:15 pm [ET] when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapter 6, The Equalization of the Profit Rate & Chapter 7, Masses in Motion.

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In the Grundrisse, Marx says, “This is in every respect the most important law of modern political economy, and the most essential for understanding the most difficult relations.

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‘This’ is often cited as if it refers to the theory of the falling rate of profit on its own. But the original text (and the referent of ‘this’ in it) indicates that it is the relation between a falling rate and a rising mass that is ‘the most important law’.

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In the Grundrisse, Marx says, “This is in every respect the most important law of modern political economy, and the most essential for understanding the most difficult relations.

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It is the most important law from the historical standpoint. It is a law which, despite its simplicity, has never before been grasped, and even less, consciously articulated.” (p. 748)

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Out today! The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World by @sunraysunray.bsky.social, @benburgis.bsky.social and @mikejbeggs.bsky.social "This is a book to 'pry open our imaginations and put the biggest questions of politics back on the table.'" -- @davidharvey.org

versobooks.comThe BlueprintCapitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative? The Blueprint lays one out: a system where workers control every lever of production, and competitive markets and state planning coexist...
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Our next class will meet tomorrow, Tuesday September 29th at 4:15 pm [ET]. when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapters 4 and 5, with a particular emphasis on Chapter 5, "The Falling Rate and Rising Mass of Profit".

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RESCHEDULED - The Story of Capital with Professor David Harvey Class. We will no longer meet on Tuesday September 22nd. Our next class will be on Tuesday September 29th when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapters 4 and 5, with a particular emphasis on Chapter 5.

David Harvey
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RESCHEDULED - The Story of Capital with Professor David Harvey Class. We will no longer meet on Tuesday September 22nd. Our next class will be on Tuesday September 29th when we will discuss the Story of Capital Chapters 4 and 5, with a particular emphasis on Chapter 5.

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You can watch the video from the 2nd class of my new course, The Story of Capital, below. We meet again next Tuesday, September 22nd at 4:15 pm [ET]. Please read The Story of Capital, Chapters 4 & 5 for that class. davidharvey.org/2026/09/the-...

davidharvey.orgThe Story of Capital – Class 2September 15, 2026 Figure 3: The Circulation of Labour Capacity The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 1, 2026. Register for the virtual course here. Read…
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Happy Birthday to Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I, published on 14 September 1867. I've taught Marx's Capital every year since 1971. My new free virtual course, The Story of Capital, meets tomorrow, Tuesday, September 15th at 4:15 pm [ET].

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My new course, The Story of Capital, meets next Tuesday, September 15th at 4:15 pm [ET]. Please read The Story of Capital, Preface, Chapters 1, 2, and 3 for that class. You can watch the video from the first class here: davidharvey.org/2026/09/the-...

davidharvey.orgThe Story of Capital – Class 1September 8, 2026 Figure 1: Circulation of CapitalFigure 2: Path of Argument in Marx’s Capital v1 The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 1, 2026. Re…
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From the standpoint of the emancipated labourer, the superiority of good social-democratic management over neoliberal malicious neglect is obvious. But that, in Marx’s view, is only an intermediate step towards even more emancipatory possibilities that only become apparent...

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in the course of class struggle. As Rosa Luxemburg put it, drawing the lessons of the 1905 Russian Revolution: "The proletariat requires a high degree of political education, of class consciousness and organization.

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All these conditions cannot be fulfilled by pamphlets and leaflets, but only by the living political school, by the fight and in the fight, in the continuous course of the revolution." Working-class class politics, in short, is constituted in the context of class struggle.