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He also has a new podcast - here Harvey riffs on Shakespeare and Game of Thrones to explain The Geopolitics of Capitalism: http://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/the-geopolitics-of-capitalism-part-1-of-2 On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 12:19 AM Ralph Johansen via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > fyi: > > David Harvey has just begun a new course of lectures on Marx's Capital > Volume I which, on the evidence of the 1st series, we can expect to be > an entertaining, deeply probing and informative project. > > Harvey has been teaching this course annually and sometimes even more > frequently at Johns Hopkins and then at CUNY since 1971. His last series > on Capital was delivered in 2007 and since much has changed since he > offers this new series. If anything I know of could make this supposedly > turgid text an acceptably easy read, it's Harvey's commentary. He > describes Capital 1 as a major work of literature, with its abundant > references to the classics including Shakespeare, Balzac, the Greeks, > Romans, Enlightenment figures as well as his contemporaries. > > Most importantly, it's become ever more clear in our time that the > capitalist system is increasingly counterproductive and antagonistic to > human welfare. We learn daily how cruel and irrelevant is this means of > subsisting, which confines more of us all the time to the brutal > "informal economy," how inimical it is to the lives of, at the least, > the nearly half of us on the planet, more than 3 billion according to > UNESCO, who still live on less than $2.50 a day, 1/3 in extreme poverty > at less than $1.25 a day, and the 1 billion children who live in > poverty. After all this time, running against the vaunted promise of > "progress." While we here in the so-called "developed" regions consume > at least 1/4 of the globe's resources, energy, GDP, and are the major > contributors, certainly per capita and in terms of skewed net > distribution, to the ruin of the ecology of our planet. > > Any reasonable person who has or hasn't given it much thought, plainly > when confronted with these truths, must realize how insane that is and, > if at all human in the sense of "humane", that person will understand > the imperative need to change that system. Not "reform" it, since it's > basic, driving premise and sine qua non is profit on investment, not > human welfare. Human welfare is only served in capitalism within the > confining and diminishing limits of profitability. Change it. > > And you don't change squat unless and until you understand it. To read > this text is an essential beginning in that undertaking. So check it out. > > It begins here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=526&v=n5vu4MpYgUo. > > This 1st lecture was given on Feb. 7 and the series continues weekly > except for Feb. 14. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/fred.r.murphy%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
