David Harvey citations

David Harvey, né le 31 octobre 1935 à Gillingham, est un géographe britannique, et l'un des chefs de file de la géographie radicale et de la théorie sociale en général.

✵ 31. octobre 1935
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“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.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 7, Overaccumulation And 'First Cut' Theory, p. 203
Contexte: 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.

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 295

“A work of this sort admits no conclusion.”

David Harvey

Afterword, p.446
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 8, Fixed capital, p. 221

“Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 11, Theory Of Rent, p. 347

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 11, Theory Of Rent, p. 338

“Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 13, Crisis In The Space Economy Of Capitalism, p. 424

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 8, Fixed capital, p. 221

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

David Harvey

Afterword, p. 449
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)

“Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.”

David Harvey

Variante: Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 6, Dynamics Of Accumulation, p. 188

“The dominant notion of rationality is a capitalist notion of rationality, that is, whatever is profitable, whatever can be organised in terms of social control of labour-power and control of natural resources.”

David Harvey

(January 1984) " The history and present condition of Geography: an historical materialist manifesto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDoIMT-Dbyo," YouTube video, 1:10:15, posted by "IGU Channel," May 7, 2014.

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 4, Technology, Labour Process And Value, p. 122

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 293

“Capital creates space-time.”

David Harvey

Introduction to the 2006 Verso Edition, p. xix-xx
The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition)

“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.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 1, Commodities, Values And Class Relations, p. 15

“Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 2, Production and Distribution, p. 59

“Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 3, Production, Consumption and Surplus Value, p. 95

“The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 13, Crisis In The Space Economy Of Capitalism, p. 418

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 304

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 11, Theory Of Rent, p. 349

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

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 12, Production Of Spatial Configurations, p. 385

“The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 3, Production, Consumption and Surplus Value, p. 82

“There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.”

David Harvey

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 13, Crisis In The Space Economy Of Capitalism, p. 442

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