David Harvey Quotes

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

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

The inner logic that governs the laws of motion of capitalism is cold, ruthless and inexorable, responsive only to the law of value. Yet value is a social relation, a product of a particular historical process. Human beings were organizers, creators and participants in that history. We have, Marx asserts, built a vast social enterprise which dominates us, delimits our freedoms and ultimately visits upon us the worst forms of degradation.

Any sensible person right now would join an organisation.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.'

Capital creates space-time.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

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.

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

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.

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

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.