Conversations with History: David Harvey

[fabfauna]

I'm more interested in Dr. Harvey's early studies. I wonder if there are any videos in attribution to that time frame.

[tcushman100]

What a tendentious fraud, ideology all the way.

[zodiacchiller]

7 people are neolibs

[Ermal8711]

Just recently discovered him... Ordered his books! 

[stampingdragon]

A fantastic Interview, I enjoyed the Michael Mann one very much but this one is incredibly incisive and so current 3 years later.

[ClassAlex]

What Marx wrote and what self-appointed 'Marxists' interpreted are two different things. Marx's understanding of 'class struggle' is dialectical. He sees the proletariat as constitutive of capital, classes are not identities but degrees of alienation from capital. The class struggle is supposed to achieve a *classless* society in which the categories of bourgeoisie/proletariat become meaningless, rather than a marxist-leninist 'workers state'.

[dharmaatdawn]

@ClassAlex I totally agree with you. Plus there was no proletariat in 1917. It was a peasant society. Revolution in 1917 was a popular revolution. BF Tsar was toppled there were workers counsils, collectives. many parties that resprsented their community. After the Tsar fell, Lenin and Trotsky used politics and repression to eliminate all of them, virtually paiting a dictatorship for Stalin. It was a power grab. New elite that think it knows better then anyone else...

[dharmaatdawn]

@ClassAlex Now the same Stalinist thugs bankers now, running around praising free market. So basically, they dont care about ideology its about them being in power at all costs. They will make the decisions at peoples expense, go to wars to get more power. During Spanish Civil War, all of the sworn enemies Fascists, west, and communists became allies to fight Anarchist-Synd. in Catalonia

[wotnuhellizdis]

When David Harvey said pre-emptive strikes are new for this century, I think he was talking exclusively about US foreign policy , as the British had done so during the Napoleonic war in 1807 against the kingdom of Denmark which was seen to be a potential threat to England's then ally Sweden.

Or maybe Wiccapedia is full of misinformation.

[TheEvolver311]

@wotnuhellizdis " When David Harvey said pre-emptive strikes are new for this century, I think he was talking exclusively about US foreign policy , as the British had done so during the Napoleonic war in 1807 " lol i think the qualifier "new for this century" means we are not looking back to premodern 1807.

[donquixote76]

harry kreisler's laugh is amazing

[FloydManFloyd]

anyone interested in social change please look into the venus project and the 'zeitgeist addendum' film.

[richard1917]

@FloydManFloyd

That's a bit like saying to someone who is reading Einstein that anyone who is interested in physics should read the Ladybird childrens' encyclopedia of science.

[FloydManFloyd]

@richard1917 hahahahaha

[Ferrari312pb]

I live roughly four miles from where he lived as a kid !

[colourmegone]

The problem with Marxism, as I understand it, is that it aims at "the dictatorship of the proletariat". I don't want to live in a dictatorship. The great problem is that many dictators ARE proletarians (the urge to tyranny knows no class distinction) and frankly I am not impressed.

[ivelostitall]

@colourmegone well as you understand it is wrong. whats your next concern?

[harleqwendy]

@colourmegone Yeah, sorry, but a "dictatorship of the proletariat" doesn't exist because dictatorships are by their very nature personalist. In Soviet Russia, dictatorship destroyed the rights of workers and turned the state into a labor-machine. Also, most dictators in recent history are right-wing and backed by the United States government.

[InterZlatan8]

@colourmegone 'dictatorship' is not at all the same as 'dictatorship of the proletariat' wich is a class-power. You must understand that on Marx's terms we live in a 'dictatorship of the bourgouisie' right now under global capitalism. (Pretty realistic I would say if you see how they bailed out wall-street. They won't give their power up.) So, dictatorship of the proletariat is in effect a class-struggle wich overthrows that existing power, and turn it to something else, a workers state.

[45joebob]

The Ism's still miss the whole problem. I like Harvey and have read him, but in the end he misses that we live in a complex world where there are no accurate complete explanations to the complexity of the agents/individuals/groups that are the players in the game. He is particularly accurate about some things but in the end screws up by not realizing the complexity - brookings.edu/press/books/1996­/artifsoc.aspx - depends upon simple rules, there is emergent behavior, the Ism's fail

[851593982]

牛，好

[Renegen1]

Amazing interview and thanks to everyone.

[ButherLi55ett]

Hardly marxist, this is basic stuff! Shows how 'radical' you become in the USA!

[1888junkteam]

excellent worker!

[emreakanak]

I agree

[emreakanak]

i agree...

[Scumdogia]

The interviewer sucks balls.  He keeps stuttering and shit.

[GeoHistPol]

As Americans we have been trained, from early school years, to think that we are all "middle class". Even those who MUST work in order to survive economically (isn't that MOST of us?) hesitate or absolutely REFUSE to think of ourselves as "working class" citizens. The Red Scare after WWI and the McCarthy hysteria after WWII were VERY effective in intimidating the citizenry. Most Americans FEAR any open discussion of Marxism and its relevance to modern American life. This is by DESIGN!

[GeoHistPol]

*Militarization of our domestic society

*Financialization of US capitalism

*Dilemma over troop shortages

*Increasing concentration of wealth in fewer hands

*Increasing pauperization of significant numbers of our citizenry

*Massive deterioration of universal public education

*Disturbing popular disjointedness in spite of popular anger

*Refusal of media corporations to speak truth to power

*Debasement of public discourse

*Deliberate coarsening and stupefaction of our population

[kingreich22]

@GeoHistPol You nailed it what the problem is with America and its peers.

[gorgeoushammer]

You're pretty mature for a 57 year old. What year did u drop out of high school?

[gorgeoushammer]

great interview. full of insight into the nature of capitalism and US imperialism. not sure i agree with the claim that vietnam was a 'defensive' war (at 34:07). though it was different from iraq and afghanistan - it wasn't meant to be a war to occupy the country.

[jumpnjza2]

It's "where", not "wear".

[ultravioletta1983]

David Harvey Rocks!

[psbjr]

long live synthesizer theme music

[kikobiko]

agreed! I feel like someone put it there as a joke.

Oh, postmodern irony.

[ceromorreo]

so true, so odd.

[daveycomet]

It's a beastly tune!

[elmazote]

hahahahahaha

[erkekler]

Very interesting remarks but the music at the beginning is horrible, totally outdated, and should be changed to improve the appeal of this clip...

[o0xst]

Oh come on its funny! I like it in that it is just so horrible!

[o0xst]

And do we really want this show to cater to Joe Six-Pack? C'mon he has everything else already, can't we have just one thing in this racially anti-intellectual hell disaster of a society?

[glottis5]

it's a fucking jam, bro

[bapyou]

Ha ha.

[Giovannisenzaterra]

Long live historical materialism.Long live socialism.Now more than ever

[AFRIKTODAY]

Niet!

[mageorge1955]

Bravo Dr. Harvey. Marx and Engels did their share. They provided us with the tools; Historical Materialism.

[jeanpaulfelix]

Long live historical materialism.Long live socialism...

[Hamma77]

A legend.

[jorgezombi]

Esto podría alguien subtitularlo al castellano? idioma que hablamos acá en Argentina

[vicentenas]

David Harvey is precise, concise and clear. These qualities is what makes his strength.

[reppinuk1988]

this man rocks! he is amazing!

[amet1980]

i wished american listen more to their post marxist philosophers and social thinkers.

[warriorprince1010]

@amet1980 America is thats why they are going bust. Too high taxes and wasteful government greedy spending.

[jdbrando]

@amet1980 Is that a serious statement? Half the people in this country are marxist or socialist, what are you talking about? Socialism is the status quo if you hadn't noticed, I can't believe how blind so-called liberal intellectuals have become.



[hjemkomst]

@jdbrando Lol! Are you being serious, or are you just another retard that gets all of their news from Fox?

[jdbrando]

@hjemkomst Sorry for the late reply. Yes I am serious. These are the facts: When people in a country are growing more and more in favor of "taxing the rich" in the name of fair share, you can come to the conclusion that they are not in any way capitalist other than claiming to be in name only. The problem is that the US is not a capitalist nation; it is a mixed economy. If we were capitalist we would not be in the mess we are right now.

[vojtesKalab]

@amet1980 Isnt Harvey British?

[fabfauna]

@vojtesKalab Yup, watch the beginning of the video. Actually, watch the whole video if you care to bother.

[endofinnovation]

Hes a legend of 20th Century Academia

he might not have as great an impact now, but he certainly did a lot for Geography when technology had less reach

[fengjiwen911]

admirable professor

[CianEyeTube]

totally agree

[bapyou]

this poster is lame

[brendanmcooney]

David harvey is my hero.

[NothingEverDies]

Indeed.

He writes clearly with no b.s., and when he doesn't know the answer to some difficult question-say the framing of human rights in contradistinction to collective, democratic political action that might threaten these rights-he will admit as much, which is rare in academia and among academics.

[mistarcraw]

i agree. i think its good to add his deep geographical expertise with some other theorists in the philosophical/critic studies. I like Zizek, I have found many of his ideas on global capitalism very crucial. he tries to write clearly, and is the enemy of obscuntarism, but he uses a philosophical framework as well as marxist and lacanian theory, so this synthesis may be polarizing.

This causes some passionate detractors, but he speaks on some very fascinating, far-reaching paradoxes

[bapyou]

Hello.

What's "obscuntarism"? You used this word in your comment here one month ago.

Or was it a Freudian slip? Ha ha if it was.

[mistarcraw]

we're solving problems that arise from language here, kid