David Harvey- The Crises of Capitalism

Radical sociologist David Harvey asks: is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?

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[zzzzJAGJEETzzzz]

I know its silly to say this, but Im glad to live in the UK and Europe at least, where our education system is better than America's and where you can have a Marxist theorist give a debate on Royal Society, wow!

[Laoch111]

David Harvey is spot on. Capitalism is utter rot. We must all stop listening to the lies of advertisers & politicians. This bailout of companies and banks that are "too big to fail" is atrocious. Enough is enough.

[wojovox]

Reading "The New Imperialism" and I wish reasonable people like Harvey where in power.

[warriorprince1010]

Capitalism [ the right for private ownership] has no responsibility for any of the current problems.  They are caused by state corruption and deregulation. Nothing to do with small businesses I am afraid.

[linsk78]

We need more of this debate in the United States. We desperately need it. If anything, Marxist critique might make capitalism in our country a bit better. We need the leftist critical theorists, they are the ones who have the balls to hold up a mirror to what we are doing.

[supahsekzy]

@TheOzomahtli I think the working class likes a high standard of living too much to rise up against capitalism.

[Avidcomp]

We never left Keynes...what's he talking about. At what point have we adopted an Austrian school system....everything that's going on is Keynesian based logic. Why rule out something (Hayek) when it's not been tried.

[unorthodoxtrotsky]

@zzzzJAGJEETzzzz

And another thing, there are Marxist theorists in the States as well. Marxism actually wins greater persuasion in social science department. One academic department where Marxism isn't considered seriously is Economics. And that's actually same with Europe and there are increasing demands for theoretical diversity for economic arguments in both Europe and the States. There are however more students studying Marxian economics in the States now than before.

[unorthodoxtrotsky]

@zzzzJAGJEETzzzz

I'm an American and there's nothing "silly" about what you wrote. But you also have to know this that you need more than just being "glad" that you are living in a continent where there are better education system because if that's all you do, your ruling class will make every effort they can get to turn it into something more like here. You need organization to fight such an effort like we need here. And we also need solidarity to fight the common enemies.

[askthepublic]

What a speaker David Harvey is, natural and interesting, inspiring - brilliant stuff

[xilix]

The crisis, is that people perceive CORPORATISM as capitalism. Real capitalism is an amazing system. We haven't had real capitalism in a long, LONG time. Make no mistake, this dirty corporate world we live in is NOT capitalism. Not one bit. It no more represents capitalism than al qaeda represents Islam. We're spinning our wheels.