David Harvey BBC HARDtalk interview, 2010 (2/3)

Capitalism is the way the world works, whether we like it or not. President Obama is trying, against stiff opposition, to reign in the worst excesses of free market capitalism with his reforms of Wall Street. But Professor David Harvey, Marxist author of The Enigma of Capital says he's wasting his time. He tells Sarah Montague that capitalism is amoral and lawless, and should be overthrown.

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[tsr2102]

this woman is an idiot.

[bapyou]

@tonyg0123 You're a complete fucking dope. No one has the time to untangle the stupidities and inanities with which you view the world.

"Harvey ... never actually ran a successful business, yet somehow understands how the economy works"

What does one have to do with the other? There are millions of people operating businesses who don't have a clue about econmics on a grander scale.

Milton Fucking Friedman never ran a business. Ditto Ronald Raygun. And both of them evil dopes. Fuck you.

[Hardwyck]

@beautybrush

She's a complete lightweight. I stopped listening to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme because I found her unbearable. But then, she's the kind of airhead the powers that be want in the media.

[blackhole73]

@BenNCM Hell yeah lets ban together and charge these ass holes.

[ArchSaur]

It's funny how everything good that happened during capitalistic times is considered as achievement of capitalism, ignoring Harvey's example of China, ignoring the technical revolution etc.

[BenNCM]

@iisadoraf If bankers want a war then LET'S GIVE THEM A WAR!

[TheRacistsMustDie]

@Christ724 Another fun thing about the "increased leisure time" is that in Hunting and Gathering societies the average work day was about 5/6 hours.

[Christ724]

The only reason we have so much "leisure time" is because workers demand the 8 hour work day in the industrialized nations...

But economists today refer to 'leisure time' when someone is unemployed...

[cestrc]

Let Prof.Harvey finish it ! GOD !

[freedomthrough]

@beautybrush Agreed. She seems really dumb and as if she's not listening to him at all, but just keeps asking the same questions.

[MisterEvil1]

@beautybrush Technology, is the reason we have so much liesure time. Do you call 15% unemployment, working?