Prof Harvey takes a look into why modern capitalism concentrates power more in finance and merchant capital than industrial capital. What changes in neoliberalism created such focus on financialization instead of surplus value? "What we've seen since the 1980s,...
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.
Born in Muzaffarnagar, in British India, Aijaz read extensively from an early age and allowed...
On 28 May 1871, one hundred and fifty years ago, the Paris Commune collapsed after seventy-two days. The workers of Paris created the Commune on 18 March, building on the wave of revolutionary optimism that first lapped on the...
AT a time when peasant masses in the country are engaged in a valiant struggle for the repeal of the central government’s three infamous laws, and have laid peaceful siege to Delhi, braving rains and bitter cold, it is...
A primer for how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century
Amidst waves of economic crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A...
A theoretical analysis of the prevailing situation, from which the proletariat’s relationship with different segments of the bourgeoisie and the peasantry is derived, and with it the Communist Party’s tactics towards other political forces, is central to the Party’s...
"The Contemporary Relevance of Marx" --Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale University, USA) at the Marx Collegium, 2017 Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (York University, Canada).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=146&v=pH9RPu6YdLg
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The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system.” So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal...
Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the world’s greatest social theorists has left this 'world system' with a message - the solutions to the ills of capitalism won’t be found in one country. He has been the defender of the rights...
A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Recorded at The People’s Forum in New York City in 2019. Links to the complete course:
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