David Harvey - Capitalism Quotes

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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

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The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

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Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

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

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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.

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Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

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There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

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The inner logic that governs the laws of motion of capitalism is cold, ruthless and inexorable, responsive only to the law of value. Yet value is a social relation, a product of a particular historical process. Human beings were organizers, creators and participants in that history. We have, Marx asserts, built a vast social enterprise which dominates us, delimits our freedoms and ultimately visits upon us the worst forms of degradation.

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The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.

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Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

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The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

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If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.

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Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.

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