"I wouldn't want my anarchist friends to be in charge of a nuclear power station": David Harvey, anarchism, and tightly-coupled systems
An industry-specific response to David Harvey's popular claim that anarchists can neither run nor combat 'tightly-coupled systems', specifically nuclear power plants and air-traffic control. This paper is examines the the former and critiques Harvey's understanding of how such systems meet anarchist theory and practice, arguing that hierarchy does not make such systems safer or more efficient - quite the contrary.
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The big problems arise, however, when you seek and try to ask yourself the question how can the international division of labour be so orchestrated so that all of us have enough to eat and reasonable material need are met and that - right now that is organized, of course, partially through command and control structures of corporate capital and partly through market engagements and when you
Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban revolution - David Harvey
Whilst governments look to make cities battlegrounds, David Harvey argues it's those within them that can dictate the actions, and use them as a platform for class struggle.
Commonwealth: An Exchange
David Harvey in an exchange with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on their new book Commonwealth featured in the November 2009 issue of artforum.
There have been two foundational themes in Antonio Negri’s work over the years. The first is an abiding faith in the capacities of the working class or the multitude (redefined as “the party of the poor” and therefore, according to Spinoza, the only “true subject of democracy”) to use their immanent powers of laboring to construct an alternative to the world given by capital.
The real pensions crisis
Submitted by Alasdair on Nov 30 2011 07:10
We are told today that we face a crisis. People are living longer, there is a demographic timebomb and, coupled with need to bring down deficit, we have no choice but to accept reductions in our pensions, the need to work longer, contribute more and get back less in the end.
In reality, none of this is true. As with reforms to tertiary education, welfare and the health service the government is simply using the excuse of the financial crisis to launch an attack on working people and the public institutions and frameworks we have built for ourselves over the past half century and more.
Crises of capitalism - David Harvey
Excellent animation narrated by David Harvey in which he explains the reasons for the current global economic crisis.
Crises of Capitalism - David Harvey from Libcom Dot Org on Vimeo.
The condition of postmodernity - David Harvey
Marxist academic David Harvey on post-modernism in PDF format.
Review of David Harvey's Limits to Capital by Paul Mattick, Jr.
A very critical review of the popular Marxist intellectual's work.
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