Conversations with History: David Harvey

I agree

i agree...

The interviewer sucks balls. He keeps stuttering and shit.

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!

*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

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

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.

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

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

Ha ha.