David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles

[S5.5 E08] The Politics of HumiliationStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgIn his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, economist John Maynard Keynes warned against the humiliation of Germany at the end of World War I. Keynes argued that if you deal with Germany by humiliating it and draining it of any economic possibilities, keeping it lost underground as it were, there will be instability all across Europe and there will be social uprisings and all the rest of it. So what Keynes was predicting in a way was the sort of social instability that started to become very apparent almost immediately after the Versailles conference in 1923 when Hitler launched his coup attempt in the Munich beer Hall. And it was generally laughed at and said this was kind of a very amateurish operation and that therefore didn't go very far. And Hitler got arrested and was sentenced to jail for five years, but got out after five months. But nobody took this seriously. And this seems to me to be one of the lessons which comes from reading Keynes on The Economic Consequences of the Peace and living through the 20th Century that too many have not actually recognized the significance of this dimension to the conflicts which are going on around us.David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion__________________________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse__________________________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharveyBlueSky: https://davidharvey.bsky.socialMastodon: https://sciences.social/@DavidHarvey#war #peace #humiliation #capitalism

[S5.5 E07] The Question of Debt in Our LivesStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgLast week Professor Harvey pointed out that the basic means by which consumerism is developed in such a way is to be consistent with the growth of an economy based upon profit seeking was to expand indebtedness. But it turns out that the credit system and the circulation of interest-bearing capital on the development of indebtedness has another very strong role. And therefore there is a double force which is concentrating upon the credit system. And that double force is related to the fact that increasingly in the history of capital, capital has required more and more fixed capital, fixed capital within the factory in the form of machines and plant and all the rest of it, but also fixed capital of what Marx called fixed capital of an independent kind - that is fixed capital that would be used in common. Professor Harvey traces the development of fixed capital and the credit system to understand the financialization of our economy today. David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion__________________________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse__________________________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharveyBlueSky: https://davidharvey.bsky.socialMastodon: https://sciences.social/@DavidHarvey#profit #capital #finance #consumerism

[S5.5 E06] Where Does Profit Come From?Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey takes us back to the very origins of Marx’s Capital by asking the questions, where does profit come from and what are the consequences of profit making? Harvey discusses how the debates between Ricardo and Malthus informed Marx’s answers to those questions. He then turns to Rosa Luxemburg’s insights into the role of imperialism’s predations on non-capitalist societies to expand accumulation. Finally, he brings the argument up to date by discussing the role of the credit system. As the internal capacity for consumerism and the imperialist capacity for consumerism become exhausted, the burden lies upon an expansion of the credit system to realize the value of ever-growing consumerism. Increasing financialization since the 1980s has created a different kind of logic to the dynamics of capital in which more and more of the onus is placed upon the growth of the credit system to keep the accumulation of capital expanding, which exposes the capitalist system to financial crises. David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion__________________________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse__________________________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharvey#profit #imperialism #finance

[S5.5 E05] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Mass and the Politics of ScaleStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the UAW strike and the transformation of the automobile industry. He argues that mere electrification of the automobile cannot solve the environmental crisis. The sheer scale at which capital is now working is radically different from that which existed in Marx's time. The growth incentive must be dismantled in such a way that allows us to meet our needs. But we have organized our societies around the automobile. We urgently have to start thinking about a political program which is actually going to stop this process of continuously doubling the economy's size every 15 years or so. By not considering the true scale of the problem we're not really thinking through the future consequences of our current actions because in many ways what we're doing is condemning the future by our present decisions. David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion__________________________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse__________________________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharvey#uaw #strike #marxism

[S5.5 E4] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Return of McCarthyism (Part 2) — On The New York Times and other Liberal MediaStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the media “red scare” on China and the current persecution of the socialist American philanthropist Roy Singham by The New York Times and Senator Marco Rubio. Roy Singham is the funder of several initiatives of the American left, including Code Pink and The Peoples Forum, an activist center in the middle of Manhattan where Professor David Harvey teaches Marx.David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion__________________________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse__________________________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharvey#politics #redscare #mccarthyism

[S5.5 E3] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Return of McCarthyism (Part 1)Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the persecution of the scholar Owen Lattimore at the hands of Joseph McCarthy. Owen Lattimore was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations. Lattimore taught at John’s Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963 and then from 1963 to 1970, he was the first Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds in England. Professor Harvey had the opportunity to visit Lattimore in London. While doing ethnographic research in Afghanistan in 1950, Lattimore was met by the US consular official who said, you'd better rush back to the United States because Senator McCarthy has fingered you as one of "the top Russian espionage agent in the United States." He was called up in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee and subjected to years of interrogation based on false charges. The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (the Senate version of HUAC), headed by Pat McCarran, came to the absurd conclusion that China was “lost” not because of Mao or because of the Chinese masses, but China was “lost” because of a small group of academics and intellectuals and State Department officials. Lattimore was red-baited and persecuted for many years. It is important to understand this history, because what we are seeing right now is a return to that paranoid style of American politics. David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion__________________________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse__________________________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharvey#politics #mccarthyism #redscare

[S5.5 E02] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Capitalist Social Formation vs. OUR PLANET!Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the relationship between the mode of production of capital and the context of its social formation. In the previous episode, Harvey shared his analysis of the capitalist mode of production from the standpoint of the emancipated laborer. Now, he further explains the mode of production, which is what Marx calls the inner structure of capitalist society. Curiously, Marx rarely uses the term capitalism, but he does talk about capital as a mode of production. And he also talks about the social formation, which is the contextual conditions within which a mode of production operates. The analogy Professor Harvey uses here is that a mode of production is like the engine of capitalism, and it is the driving engine of the mode of production, which Marx is primarily concerned to analyze and understand. But Marx also recognizes the significance of the social formation, especially in terms of both the environmental conditions, and also the social and cultural history. Therefore, we need to have a clear analysis of the relationship between the social formation and the mode of production.David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events.If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at:https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion_______________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book "A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse" (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse_______________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Threads: https://www.threads.net/@politicsinmotionFollow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharvey#politics #economy #marxism

[PNM S5 E01] Workers Unite! Emancipation from the Capitalist TotalityStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgIn this analysis of the capitalist totality, Professor Harvey provides a critical examination of the exploitative nature of capitalism from the perspective of the emancipated worker. The capitalist totality refers to the all-encompassing system of capitalism, which affects every aspect of modern society, including the economy, politics, culture, and even our personal lives.Using his recent book as a foundation, Professor Harvey exposes the deep-rooted inequalities and injustices that exist in the capitalist system. He highlights how workers are oppressed by capitalists who constantly seek to extract the maximum amount of labor from them while paying them as little as possible. Furthermore, he argues that this oppression stems from the inherent contradictions within capitalism, which prioritize profit over the well-being of workers.Throughout his analysis, Professor Harvey emphasizes the agency of workers in challenging and changing the conditions that oppress them. By acknowledging the oppressive nature of capitalism and the agency of workers to resist and transform it, he offers a critical perspective on the current state of the world and a path towards a more just and equitable future.David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced by Politics in Motion. Politics In Motion is a nonprofit organization founded in May 2023 by Prof. David Harvey and Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán, along with Dr. Chris Caruso, instructional technologist, and noted writer and art curator Laura Raicovich. Our anti-capitalist media platform offers piercing insights and thought-provoking analyses on political, social, spatial, cultural, environmental and economic issues through a range of engaging mediums, including YouTube streams, podcasts, and live events. If you would like to support this project and see more of Prof. Harvey, visit us at: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotion___________________________________________________________David Harvey's lastest book A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse (Verso 2023): https://www.versobooks.com/products/2930-a-companion-to-marx-s-grundrisse___________________________________________________________Follow Politics in Motion:Website: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPatreon: https://patreon.com/PoliticsinMotionYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsInMotionInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/politicsinmotion/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@politicsinmotionTwitter: https://twitter.com/politicsnmotionFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-in-Motion/100092557227878/Follow David Harvey:Website: http://davidharvey.orgTwitter: https://twitter.com/profdavidharvey#Politics #Economy #Marx