Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle

Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey
Recorded on 10 May 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.
Given the strong relationship between urbanization and capital accumulation, and the consequent urban roots of both past and present fiscal crises, it follows that the city is a key arena within which class forces clash. The sharpening of these clashes transforms movements for the right to the city into urban uprisings and revolutionary movements. This then poses the key question of how to mobilize and organize a whole city around a movement for revolutionary change.
David Harvey is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent books include A Companion to Marx's Capital; The Enigma of Capital (Deutscher Prize, 2010); and Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution.
mp3 audio podcast available here - www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vi...

[@vvcc1805]

Brilliant and amazing. David Harvey is an excellent scholar and extremely intuitive.

[@johnmclean8167]

Solidarity from Hamilton, Ontario. Rustbelt city now feeling the pressures of gentrification. We need a federation of REBEL CITIES

[@ronnieboisvert]

Sudbury here ... I agree

[@mervyntang3318]

we also need ship ports and factories. Also internet.

[@democracydignityhumanrights]

Solidarity from the rural south where globalization and free trade has decimated us

[@megansalt]

Inspiring. Thank you.

[@MincPubInc]

while i havent given him the time that some have, after conversing with dedicated marxist's it has been acknowledged that a free society (anarcho-communitarianism) based on labor federations and technological production is its ultimate end. that said- communists have a choice to make- stick the book, according to marx, or embrace what trotsky called 'permanent revolution; or, an unceasing move towards shedding the state actively. the principles of that transformation are not inherent in marx

[@90killers]

He is a good man, a good man with a good beard.

[@syndicat4847]

The use of trades councils to organize the working class is a concept developed and used by the Anarcho-Syndicalists.

[@AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt]

Viva Anarchy!

[@syndicat4847]

@@AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt - Viva Anarchy and long live Libertarian socialism.

[@KbcBerlin]

I dont think personal opting out, if feasible, is worth very much, but only as satisfaction to the individual, I do myself when possible. I dont expect my action to do much, but I feel better not complying all the time. But I think its a bit like being in a large group proposing to rob a bank, and opting out. Its probably not going to make any difference to the outcome except you are the one without the money, and not chased by the law.

[@alsoadsepultura8054]

26:52 what does that guy say and gets rejected SO HARD?

[@fmagalhaesbhz]

remember kalecki: workers spend what they earn. capitalists earn what they spend.

[@MincPubInc]

anarchist communism is the only stateless entity i know of in modern communist practice ala- the paris commune, or the ukrain during the Bolshevic revolution... but take a look at how those turned out. the state is a bureaucracy that seeks to limit the progress of the people, to keep a record of progress there is no possible way for an accountant to keep up with the pace of a people united, and for that reason uniting people has been a major taboo in modern society. (collective bargaining(union)

[@863mes]

Why must the answer always be politicization? Why not community? Art? Voluntary associations leading to good governance? DeTocqueville showed American culture is unique for its voluntary associations. Why not play to the strengths?

[@suburbiaKID]

I’m sure DeToqueville would come to a very different conclusion if he was writing on American culture in the 21st century.

[@suburbiaKID]

None of these are relative strengths of American society today.

[@shiyanahunter6874]

is there a transcript available?

[@kpjlflsknflksnflknsa]

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[@skstan1965]

capital has to control urbanization. mortgage controls unions through debt. 21:00

[@KbcBerlin]

Felipe Magalhães "capitalists earn what they spend" Joker Now that's just a plain bare faced lie.

[@MincPubInc]

Socialism is a process of addressing the lowest tier of society in order to ensure the safety of the highest. It is a reformist reinforcement of classism. You may be referring to Communism, which holds the goal of a 'workers state'- effectively consuming class differentiation; yet the massive bureaucratic State apparatus is only fallible, as historic experiments with communism have shown.

[@GalenAus]

Communism is stateless mate

[@AntonioGarmsci-cy5vt]

Not yet it isn't. Anarchy is the goal.

[@LEO-xo9cz]

Hypocrisy....

[@AudioPervert1]

leave the city .. it's about to collapse .. including LSE!

[@MincPubInc]

anarchist communism is the only stateless entity i know of in modern communist practice ala- the paris commune, or the ukrain during the Bolshevic revolution... but take a look at how those turned out. the state is a bureaucracy that seeks to limit the progress of the people, to keep a record of progress there is no possible way for an accountant to keep up with the pace of a people united, and for that reason uniting people has been a major taboo in modern society. (collective bargaining(union)