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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 <
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> 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=n5vu4MpYgUo.
>
> This 1st lecture was given on Feb. 7 and the series continues weekly
> except for Feb. 14.
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