Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey

(Opening in Croatian, interview in English)
On the show the ‘Drugi format’ (‘The other format’)
With Vlatka Kolarovic
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This video shows David Harvey speaking atop Federal Hill overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor at the opening event of the City From Below conference in March 2009. In this talk, Professor Harvey revisits and updates his famous essay A View from Federal Hill, which appeared in The Baltimore Book and was reprinted in Spaces of Capital. The conference was organized by the Baltimore Development Cooperative, Red Emma’s bookstore, and the Indypendent Reader.

Watch the video at the Indypendent Reader.

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How does capitalism get reproduced over time? This question has puzzled political economists from the seventeenth century onwards. Many simple models have been devised to answer this very complex question. While none of them are fully satisfactory, many insights are to be had from studying them and in these times of deep and frustrating troubles it is very important that we do just that.

One such model can be extracted from the works of Karl Marx and however abhorrent his political views might be to many, we ignore his insights at our peril. So here is a Marx parable that has interesting relevance to our present circumstance.
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Chapter 5: “Capital Evolves” from David Harvey’s recent book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available as a free PDF download:

Chapter 5: Capital Evolves from The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (258k PDF)

Thanks to Profile Books for making the chapter available. The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism has been released in paperback in the UK by Profile Books. The second edition features a new afterword. Available now via Amazon.co.uk and waterstones.com.

The US paperback edition is scheduled for release this summer by Oxford University Press and is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The hardcover edition is available now from Amazon.

The Enigma of Capital is the winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Read the review in the London Review of Books.

Real Estate Saves Capitalism Then Bursts – China Next?
The Real News Network
July 5, 2011

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Greece Should Default
The Real News Network
July 3, 2011

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Professor Harvey taught a semester-long course on Marx’s Capital Volume II (including parts of Volume III) at Union Theological Seminary in the Spring 2011 semester. The class was attended by graduate students from Union Theological Seminary, CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia, Fordham, New York Theological Seminary, New York University, and the Brecht Forum. A series of interviews were filmed of Professor Harvey – four students asked him about the experience of teaching Volume II. Thanks to over 250 small donors to this site, the budget to complete this project has been raised. Now over 55 hours of tape have to be edited. Our film editor will be working over the summer, and we hope to start posting the new videos to this site this Fall.

The paperback edition of The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available from Profile Books with a new afterword. Video produced by Red Mist Films.

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Emancipation from What and from Whom?
A lecture for a conference on “New Emancipation Struggle”
Subversive Film Festival
The Europa Cinema
Zagreb, Croatia
May 19, 2011
Part 2 here
Filmed and edited by SkriptaTV and Slobodni Filozofski (English site).

Interview by Nino Cengic
Subversive Film Festival
May 20, 2011

Filmed and edited by SkriptaTV and Slobodni Filozofski (English site).

All lectures and interviews from Subversive Film Festival 2011 and former years are on the Subversive Film Festival playlist.

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From RSA Animate

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View Spanish subtitled version.

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