David Harvey: The Crisis Today: Marxism 2009

Debate with Chris Harman at Marxism 2009
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[clive burgess]

David Harvey: The Crisis Today: Marxism 2009 #CAPITAL IS ON STRIKE!!! - raise our living standards NOW!!!

[TheRacistsMustDie]

It wasn't all plain language that's for sure, but it wasn't obscure or anything.

[Mikael Velschow-Rasmussen]

That's gotta be the most stupid thing postulated i have seen recently !!

I guess you're referring to East Germany, Soviet etc.

These countries were tyrannies and had nothing to with what Harvey is talking about.

Any way Religion and Empire expansion has got to be on top of the list.

And NOT Marxism (I would argue real Marxism hasn't killed anyone since it hasn't been implemented in any society i know of)

[MrJimmyDylan]

Can you provide me with any proof of this? I doubt it very much, apart from opinion in those books you have quoted.

[Dina Strange]

Would be nice if he spoke in simple language.

[Albert DiTomaso]

stupid intelligentsia.

[shidapu145]

The world needs more people like david harvey....

[trev moffatt]

Bunch of non-sequitirs - comparing two industrialized giants with peasant strewn backwaters like China and Russia. These countries had always suffered famines- but of course history only started post communism according to the West. I'd hazard a guess you are totally ignorant of Chinese and Russian history before communism. I personally wish China and Russia hadn't had communist revolutions - they weren't ready - but brutalized poor countries are attracted to the ideology - for obvious reasons

[Kelly41m]

Trev moffatt - "Death by Government" - Mass starvation discussed. Question: Why in democratic countries, is this fairly rare IE: starvation to death"? In the States, as in Canada through the dust bowls of the 30's - farmers - owning their own land and means of production struggled against environmental conditions to get thier crops off. Through this produced enough that mass starvation minimized. People owning their own land & means of production "as it is thier stuff" try harder or improvise.