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Dear @jordanbpeterson, I invite you to join my free course, Reading Marx's Grundrisse. It could be a great way for you to read Marx for the first time! So when you next try to debate someone like Zizek, maybe you won't abjectly humiliate yourself again. davidharvey.org/2022/12/regist…Oh good. A Marxist. In academia. 100 million plus corpses not enough for you, buddy?- 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.Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude." afr.com/politics/feder…
00:00 - I withdraw from participation in the Sociological Meetings in Ankara in protest against the Turkish attack upon the Kurdish population in Syria. This is a crime against humanity that merits universal condemnation.
- Who’s going to tell him?Replying to @LHSummersThere is some social phenomenon which I suspect explains non work, non marriage, deaths of despair, general alienation and, I suspect, the rise of reactionary populism. It should be a major task of social science to understand it.
- Marx praised free time for all as the true measure of how far we had progressed toward socialism.
- Want to not sound like a clown when you talk about Marx's Capital? I've made 4 online courses available for free: Reading Marx's Capital Vol 1 Reading Marx's Capital Vol 2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason davidharvey.org/reading-capita…Das Kapital in a nutshell
- I’m going to be teaching a new free live-streamed course, Reading Marx’s Grundrisse, starting in February. Details to come.
- Happy Birthday to Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I, published on 14 September 1867. davidharvey.org/reading-capita…
- My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume I, and to read it on Marx's own terms... one of his terms, I can assure you, is that you read, and read carefully. Real learning always entails a struggle to understand the unknown.
- Really begging everyone in the YIMBY community to spend less time arguing with psychotic marxist geography professors and more on trying to find both arguments and substantive policy ideas to address normal people's practical concerns about traffic and school crowding.
- Capital is a process, not a thing.
- Happy Birthday to Marx’s Capital Volume I, published on 14 September 1867. davidharvey.org/reading-capita…
