David Harvey Quotes

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If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

David Harvey
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

David Harvey
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

David Harvey
But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

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Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

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Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

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Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

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The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

David Harvey