David Harvey Quotes

workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings.

But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

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

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

Any sensible person right now would join an organisation.

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.

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.

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

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

A work of this sort admits no conclusion.

Capital creates space-time.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.