I pause the video for a while to read the relevant section again, forget what was happening in the video, and unpause to hear "we live in a society." Brilliant timing on my part
@Fawnroseisabelle3 жыл бұрын
This man was my professor during my PhD - He's brilliant and was the best lecturer I ever experienced.
@smoke18302 жыл бұрын
Just remember every time Marx has been tried it failed.
@profe33302 жыл бұрын
@@smoke1830 Please, PLEASE don't keep repeating this piece of idiocy. Marx's ideas have been hugely influential in economies all over the world, in cultural studies and in all the arts. I can't think of theoretical body of work that's been more important in forming modern consciousness. To say "Marx has been tried" - whatever that even means! - just proves that you're completely ignorant of the subject, and are trying to score some kind of ideological point with other know-nothings.
@smoke18302 жыл бұрын
@@profe3330 Name a country where Marx was tried and it is a success? Just name it?
@smoke18302 жыл бұрын
@@profe3330 Idiot is a key word associated with ancient Greece, or Alexander the Great, do you know what it means.
@profe33302 жыл бұрын
@@smoke1830 Pretty much EVERY country has been influenced by Marx and Marxism in one form or another. Look it up. I dare ya.
@gloverelaxis5 жыл бұрын
very grateful to everyone except the sound technician for this fantastic video
@MRJJJarhead5 жыл бұрын
to the gulag!
@chanm015 жыл бұрын
"the revolution will not be televised" etc. etc. 😂
@OH-pc5jx5 жыл бұрын
Being a sound technician can be hard 😔 besides, the real screw up here is the editor not cutting the first ten minutes
@Lexaire3 жыл бұрын
Nice mic, mic stand, good position. And completely wrecked by having terrible processing.
@neilbradley90353 жыл бұрын
Just needs a high-pass filter.
@Sherjan00775 жыл бұрын
Solidarity from Afghanistan. More power to IMT , long live international workers democracy. Down with nationalism, imperialism and religious extremism......
@skapowski5 жыл бұрын
Lecture starts at 11:45
@basedgodben5 жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@kitlangton5 жыл бұрын
A guy scratches his nose at 1:00:46
@patrickholt22705 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@Danskadreng4 жыл бұрын
@@kitlangton Thank you, saved me a lot of time
@TheWoozly4 жыл бұрын
Kit Langton thank you so much for keeping us updated - I'd been looking for this
@andreireinoso4691 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making these lectures widely accessible and helping the masses understand such an important text. I’ve always been too intimidated to read capital but these lectures make the text enjoyable and that much more enlightening.
@christophersmith25815 жыл бұрын
I remember reading all 3 volumes of Capital in grad school and using Harvey's videos. They helped alot and gave me greater appreciation for Marx.
@متين-ج4ز4 жыл бұрын
What were you using them for?
@alexhawksteel63 жыл бұрын
@@متين-ج4ز I'm doing the same and it helps me understand the text more by listening to Davids lectures.
@THEMAX000002 жыл бұрын
What in the world is wrong with you
@rodrigocortesmora18 Жыл бұрын
I ve started reading volume one, is a great experience
@wirtokАй бұрын
Shame he doesn't have any videos for vol 3
@imagine070185 жыл бұрын
The beginning of the video at first led me to believe that it was literally about watching Harvey read Capital.
@johnsmith51395 жыл бұрын
lol
@foogattimcr87774 жыл бұрын
same lol. I was like, "buckle up!"
@javierreciohuetos72463 жыл бұрын
that would be so beautiful
@authenticallysuperficial98746 ай бұрын
And the misleading title
@brunoqueiroz27593 ай бұрын
@@authenticallysuperficial9874 its not missleading, the classes are intended so that its a reading exercise of das kapital. you should read a section of the book between each episode
@agstinacueva16733 жыл бұрын
Thank you for allowing us to access information for free! Lets keep fighting for education
@maybepriyansh91935 күн бұрын
This absolutely forced me to grab a pen and notebook and I'm so so thankful to Mr Harvey for eliciting that kind of inspiration and desire for what I had been procastinating on for a long while due to concerns regarding realization of labour power in the capitalist totality of my own that I need to sustain/reproduce myself.
@JK-tr2mt6 ай бұрын
Brilliant summary diagram explaining the whole from 39:28; great for visual learner, enhances his verbal explanation.
@nova-scotiacommunist32273 жыл бұрын
I am in the process of reading Capital It is a tough read at times but very humourous and others are very enjoyable read plus educational
@profe33302 жыл бұрын
Yes! My students are always amazed that Marx is actually FUNNY. I love that! But yes: it's hard to read the Big Books on your own. When I was in grad school, we formed a Capital reading group, and that really helped.
@متين-ج4ز4 жыл бұрын
Chapter one begins at 1:01:27
@maxine39784 жыл бұрын
Lmao 1 hour of intro
@متين-ج4ز4 жыл бұрын
Maxine 28Ve Only a true Marxist spends an hour on an introduction
@billybudd82253 жыл бұрын
If you're going to skip the intro, you might as well skip the whole lecture series and just read the book, you're missing the point
@agstinacueva16733 жыл бұрын
@@maxine3978 the intro is actually very interesting
@wilsonsilva29182 жыл бұрын
@@billybudd8225 Not really, it is a very complicated book that requires a lot of political and economic knowledge to be properly dissected, which is good to have a specialist to help with that
@kinghassy3342 жыл бұрын
I love all the subtle context you add to the text, there's a lot of stuff that just goes over your head when reading the book
@ryanchicago60282 жыл бұрын
Thanks Professor Harvey for this lecture: "Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many-they are few!"
@michael8ruАй бұрын
55:43 “I am exceedingly glad to learn that your health is progressing well. For the past 3 weeks I, too, have again been dosing myself and only stopped doing so today. I had been overdoing very much my nocturnal labours, accompanied, it is true, by mere lemonade on the one hand, but an immense deal of tobacco on the other. I am, by the way, discovering some nice arguments. E.g. I have completely demolished the theory of profit as hitherto propounded.” - Marx to Engels, Jan. 11, 1858
@bills.prestonesq.59052 жыл бұрын
Best to read it as a student before your life necessitates reading it.
@DrCruel2 жыл бұрын
True. In order to resist Marxist nonsense, it's best to be familiar with this stupidity.
@vennila9883 жыл бұрын
After reading the relevant chapter and listen to his lecture in audio form much fruitful to understand the the abstractions of Marx.whenever i repeatedly listen to the lecture new things crop up in mind.An excellent presentation.
@JustJanitor Жыл бұрын
I cannot thank you enough for making this available
@cancerousordo63145 жыл бұрын
Wow another go at Capital. I had listened to the previous course religiously so I am happy to have another reading. I may have to break out the text and follow along
@ff-qf1th2 жыл бұрын
you listened religiously? marx would be ashamed. listen _critically_
3 жыл бұрын
42:58 volume 1 concentrates on money capital trhrough commodities and realization of value, 2.- circulations and 3.- distribution
@almadelatierra51534 жыл бұрын
GEN Z FOR MARX!!! ANYONE? ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
@The_Revolutionist3 жыл бұрын
✊✊✊
@annilator30003 жыл бұрын
GEN Z FOR MARX VIVE L'INTERNATIONALE!
@roseredflechette-vidya3 жыл бұрын
I'm a millennial who is very excited to see the havoc your generation wreaks. I thought I was extremist - you guys are on a whole other level though, and I mean that in the best way possible. Give 'em hell. Don't compromise. No half-measures. Hopefully the planet doesn't completely cook before you all can turn the tables.
@annilator30003 жыл бұрын
@@roseredflechette-vidya No there won't be any compromise.
@comradecaleb69033 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah!✊🏻
@mattickista4 жыл бұрын
1:04:00 HE SAID IT
@DearValentina4 жыл бұрын
based
@lexolexoh8 ай бұрын
We doooooo
@vphiameradisogaarwa3 жыл бұрын
I have watched 4 hour lectures, and took notes on them! So Bring it on!
@ayohilary77443 жыл бұрын
So thrilled that I stumbled on to this series!!
@Hermes15485 жыл бұрын
I thought reading War and Peace was an achievement. Then I read Chateaubriand's Memories and thought so. Then I read Proust's Memories and thought so. But Nothing prepared me for Capital, Volume I, II, and III. Shakespeare is hard; Donne harder; Marx hardest.
@GianPietroFarina885 жыл бұрын
Have you tried Hegel... ?:)
@stirnersghost76565 жыл бұрын
@@GianPietroFarina88 I am convinced even Hegel didn't understand himself
@philgwellington60364 жыл бұрын
Have you tried yoga?
@henryberrylowry95124 жыл бұрын
@@GianPietroFarina88 A helluva drug.
@mforsell4 жыл бұрын
And then there is Hegel and Phenomenology of Spirit...
@BeartatoTime3 ай бұрын
To anyone coming to these videos with the goal of reading Capital; a) welcome, but b) don't worry about the big flow chart this lecturer likes to use throughout the lecture series. It's not nonsensical but it becomes close to it. You'll develop your own understanding of the flow of labour as you read Marx's work.
@czarquetzal8344 Жыл бұрын
Marx is a challenging thinker, so becoming a scholar of his works is a serious business.
@linyou58445 жыл бұрын
I'm a chinese translator,Could I upload my subtitle?
@PeoplesForum5 жыл бұрын
Sure thing!
@linyou58445 жыл бұрын
@@PeoplesForum Yeah!I still need to complete it,after then I will unplod,thank you
@NewAgeNomad935 жыл бұрын
@@linyou5844 this is amazing! international workers' solidarity!
@linyou58445 жыл бұрын
@@NewAgeNomad93 YES!
@linyou58444 жыл бұрын
@@PeoplesForum I have uploaded Bilingual subtitles.for english version,there are some mistakes,because it from youtube auto submit
@kassokilleri2ff2 жыл бұрын
Hi. Free market capitalist here trying to learn Marx. Maybe when I'm done ill come back and say what I learned.
@TheMojoGangАй бұрын
Use value, exchange value, and value 1:10:15. 1:21:58
@inwithon4 жыл бұрын
Thank you last question guy! Harvey's response was hella interesting and clarifying.
@10z204 жыл бұрын
Which one is preferable, the 2007 or the 2019 edition?
@revolutionarydefeatism4 жыл бұрын
10z20 That’s exactly my question: as far as I can say, the 2007 was better. The difference between terms “appear” and “is” in the first sentence of the Capital, in the 2007 version mentioned but in this new one, he just mentioned it when someone asked him a question.
@mirakimber63334 жыл бұрын
I've watched video 1-3 of the 2007 talks, and in my opinion this version is better because it gives more of a complete overview at the beginning, whereas the 2007 talks are more cumulative and it took me a while to understand where you are / what's the argument.
3 жыл бұрын
1:39:00 Value is in contant change do to many things: productivity, technoogy, demand, etc...
@musaali7053 жыл бұрын
Since there are 12 parts to this video series, can someone let me know what chapters each part covers? I assumed it would be each part of Capital Vol. 1 for each video, but there's only 8 parts in the book if I remember correctly. Would really appreciate some guidance here! Love from Pakistan :)
@MattWrafter3 жыл бұрын
Class 1, Introduction Class 2, Chapter 1 Class 3, Chapters 2 & 3 Class 4, Chapters 4, 5 & 6 Class 5, Chapters 7, 8 & 9 Class 6, Chapters 10 & 11 Class 7: Chapters 12, 13 & 14 Class 8: Chapter 15 (first part) Class 9: Chapter 15 (second part) Class 10: Chapters 23 & 24 Class 11: Chapter 25 Class 12: Chapters 26-33 Happy studying comrade!
@musaali7053 жыл бұрын
@@MattWrafter thank you so so much!
3 жыл бұрын
56:14 dialectical motion of value: idea production, comodity, circulation, distribution, money form= value. Thats what causes work...the processs
2 жыл бұрын
1:01:24 ¿Porqué comenzó con el análisis de la mercancía?
@Biakoff2 жыл бұрын
Вижу Девида Харви ставлю лайк! Пролетарии всез стран объединяйтесь! Hello from Russia!
@neillholley5061 Жыл бұрын
At 51:00, what is a "historically developed form"? Can anyone explain/expound on what that means, please?
@thegoodnoodle28964 ай бұрын
typically within kapital, "developed form" addresses the nature of the market and industry. a developed form would exist in London, while it might not in South America. that being historic is also just an additive, think of this as the way we might use "historical document" or "historical commentary." to circle back, though we don't think of certain areas immediately outside London to be underdeveloped and without industry, but in that period of the late 19th century, it somewhat was, also, not in many other places was the empirical evidence of capitalism and it's functions available, certainly not publicly. hope this helps, solidarity!
@Diamat19174 жыл бұрын
39:40 *Kapitał to pieniądze użyte w specyficzny sposób a mianowicie: to pieniądze użyte w celu pomnożenia pieniędzy. W kapitalizmie produkcyjnym pieniądze są użyte aby zakupić towary a w szczególności dwa rodzaje towarów: 1)siłę roboczą i 2)Środki produkcji. Te dwa rodzaje towarów są użyte w procesie produkcyjnym aby wytworzyć nowe towary: środki produkcji, towary luksusowe i towary kupowane za płacę roboczą*
@josecarlosllerenarobles61296 жыл бұрын
big up comrades! from Perú!
@Matiberve3 жыл бұрын
That was amazing, I'm excited to hear the rest.
@MRJJJarhead5 жыл бұрын
has anyone got any idea why prof. Harvey doesn't teach vol.3?
@josephjohnson7015 жыл бұрын
Harvey dealt with Grundresse and Capital v. 3 in his lectures on Capital vol. 2.
@snoopy_poopy695 жыл бұрын
@Rabble Repository where does michael hudson talk about it?
@tliltictotolotlmacehualli57964 жыл бұрын
@TheCanMan Can Since 1990 Michael Hudson doesn't get what Marx lays out in the first chapter of Volume 1 of Capital, how the hell would he be an authority on Volume 3?
@Diamat19174 жыл бұрын
1:11:50 Społecznie niezbędnym czasem pracy jest czas pracy potrzebny do wytworzenia jakiejś wartości użytkowej w istniejących społecznie normalnych warunkach produkcji i przy społecznie przeciętnym stopniu umiejętności i intensywności pracy.
@nowfuture67925 жыл бұрын
A genuine question, will you guys be able to provide an english subs for all these videos?
@PeoplesForum5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for bringing that up. For the moment, we recommend turning on the Auto-generated captions that KZbin provides.
@alinepereira70145 жыл бұрын
There should be subs for every living language on earth
@ff-qf1th2 жыл бұрын
@@PeoplesForum that's a terrible recommendation
@MrDXRamirez3 жыл бұрын
A blackboard will help to lay out the theoretical concepts Dr. Harvey is speaking about. Visual aids are always a good learning tool. Verbally the lecture is fantastic and people should get a lot from this.
@geedebored51083 жыл бұрын
He uses a blackboard in the other version of this class you can find on KZbin!
@MrDXRamirez3 жыл бұрын
@@geedebored5108 Have you read Capital?
@geedebored51083 жыл бұрын
@@MrDXRamirez yes, a couple times, why?
@MrDXRamirez3 жыл бұрын
@@geedebored5108 Am reading it now. I wish I can discuss it in a group. I found the first chapters completely understandable against a back drop of writer’s who say the first three chapters are the hardest, but if skipped, and not understood I think the rest of the book is not understandable, because the method he uses is the method used in all other sections of the book. Anyway. My question had no other motive.
@czarquetzal8344 Жыл бұрын
Don't be so demanding. Are you paying for this lecture? Just be grateful.
2 жыл бұрын
1:20:50 Productos que no tienen valor de mercancia o valor de uso por "otros". Ejemplos
@Loud_Thinker5 жыл бұрын
I am not sure if anybody have asked this before but I was wondering if you have the audio only version of your readings from Capitol almost like an audiobook? Thank you!
@PeoplesForum5 жыл бұрын
We have added most Episodes to our new Podcast. Please visit tpf.link to check it out.
@quiet_woods2568 Жыл бұрын
@@PeoplesForum this link doesn't seem to work? has it moved or gone offline?
@risin4949 Жыл бұрын
A wonderful and much needed video.
@aliexpress.official4 жыл бұрын
should I watch this series or the 2010 version that takes place in a classroom?
@SocialCreditScore2 жыл бұрын
@Alan Doane do you think I should go through part 1 of the earlier one, then part one of this one and so on? Or should I completely finish the earlier course first, then come back and go through it again with this course?
3 жыл бұрын
1:01:37 se da cuenta que todo comienza con una inmenza cantidad de mercancías.....ésa será su prioridad para estudiar el sistema del capital
@tonyfubu3 жыл бұрын
Take this advice from someone who attended the seminars: David Harvey, god bless him, simply rehashed what he has already published in his Companion to Marx books (so just go buy them). The only new information is in this video on his attempt to characterize the system Marx "discovered" as similar to that of a hydrological cycle. This analogy is especially apt since Wall Streeters think about money (movement) in terms of liquidity, at least for now.
@kennytheclown3859 Жыл бұрын
Harvey does make Capital more accessible.
@sergiocarvajalgallego53883 жыл бұрын
1:01:40 is where he starts discussing Chapter 1.
@jason8077 Жыл бұрын
Critics of capitalism studies how capitalism works. Critics of Marxism never even read his book.
3 жыл бұрын
1:15:17 socially necesary labor times depends on productivity
@isaac-qe1wu4 жыл бұрын
Long forum is growing online with the youth, the idea of bite sized blahs blahs blahs it's not true. ♡ love this thank u!
does anyone know what edition of Capital he is citing from?
@benniethejets3 жыл бұрын
Penguin
@michaelthomheadley2 жыл бұрын
How do you explain the degree to which Marx overlooks the fact that different commodities are worth different things (exchange value) to different people depending on the situation? He seems to jump right into exchange value on page 1 and say that this is equal to that, end of story. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
@jaredrevis45942 жыл бұрын
Do you mean with his specific examples of cloth = coats and the like? In which case these are simply examples that change. In fact, considering the relationship between value (as affected by labor) and exchange value, the value can very much change based on what the actors involved deem "socially valuable labor." Additionally, he doesn't mean value as price, as supply and demand still affect price in Marx's view (the difference arising that similar supplies and demands for different products will not necessarily create the same price, meaning there must be an underlying value). So essentially, he doesn't so much ignore this as it lies in implied details. Your evaluation of the value involved, as well as the other party's, will change it because it is a social thing, and the spatial-personal details will affect demand, and therefore the price in that instance that is born from the value. Exchange any problems in my articulation of this, I'm dealing both with understanding Marx myself, and Marx's problem of putting down complicated jumbles of thought in simple terms.
@monkeymox25442 жыл бұрын
Marx is talking about value in the sense of classical economics, the same kind of value that Smith wrestled with. Marx was perfectly aware of supply and demand, but supply and demand doesn't tell us why different commodities exchange at different rates under perfect market conditions. So yes, there could be a hypothetical situation where a person would exchange a diamond for a loaf of bread, but that doesn't reflect the normal prices of either diamonds or bread. The question is: why _in general_ does a loaf of bread cost less than a diamond. The answer for Marx (and I'm oversimplifying slightly) is that less labour power goes into making bread than extracting diamonds. This is why we're talking about value rather than price. Prices fluctuate according to conditions of supply and demand, value is the point around which they fluctuate. Value itself fluctuates according to the prevailing methods of production used to create any given commodity.
@michaelthomheadley2 жыл бұрын
@@monkeymox2544 Thanks for your reply, that clears it up. though I wonder under current conditions whether we can still say that the definition holds? I'll have to think more about it
@monkeymox25442 жыл бұрын
@@michaelthomheadley you're welcome! When you refer to "current conditions", what are you wondering about precisely? I ask because Marx sees the prevailing conditions of production as determining value. Value is determined by the average amount of labour time it takes to produce any give commodity, with the average degree of skill required to make it, using the methods and technologies which are prevelant. So if for example a new machine or technique is developed that allows commodity x to be produced in half the time, the value of that commodity halves. In other words, "current conditions" are built into the theory.
@chadmarx7718 Жыл бұрын
Marx uses the assumptions of classical economics, i.e., perfect competition making the price of a commodity constant in all cases
@giovannidebiase68506 жыл бұрын
The sound quality is awful. Compared to the original youtube lectures it is actually worse.,someobe needs to sort it out as it is making understanding the material more difficult.
@Diamat19174 жыл бұрын
46:00 *Metoda prezentacji musi się różnić od metody badawczej* *Posłowie do wydnia drugiego*
@drsalmanshafiq30503 жыл бұрын
Thanks Prof. Harvey
3 жыл бұрын
1:24:08 need a want, a need and desire for the commodity. If it isn´t it has no value.
@meganiswatchingthis4 жыл бұрын
Love the irony of none of these videos being captioned :) I’ve luckily already had the opportunity to read Das Kapital in a class setting but it would be nice to learn more about it 🙃
@PadraigTomas2 жыл бұрын
Presently there is a complete transcript in the description. On a phone this feature is more easily read.
2 жыл бұрын
1:34:00 Suply and demand
@mortek13797 ай бұрын
where is the superplus?
@atashikokoni3 жыл бұрын
So glad I found this.
@ruchirathore787610 ай бұрын
Plz tell Edition year he is reading
3 жыл бұрын
1:07:09 Use value versus exchange vaue
@boniface953 жыл бұрын
A question to the Hosts; what is the exact copy of Capital that David Harvey is reading from there? Thankyou
@thegoodnoodle28964 ай бұрын
the copy he's reading here is the penguin classic version, hope this helps sorry im late!
@revolutionarydefeatism4 жыл бұрын
Guys, is anybody interested in modification of the subtitles? If anyone can do 5 minutes it will be done in a week. Let’s do a collective work!
@AsifKhan-bv3iu15 күн бұрын
This man is extremely intelligent.
@DisVo512 жыл бұрын
Посоветовал всем, Политэкономия, учебник. Островитянов, 1954 г. Есть в сети на русском и даже на ютубе в аудиоверсии. Он основан на трудах Маркса, Ленина, на опыте прошедшей революции, на опыте построения социалистической экономики.
@terenceliao65952 жыл бұрын
which Version of capital should I choose?
@thegoodnoodle28964 ай бұрын
the one you see him reading here is the Penguin classic version. hope this helps!
@brakonikolic14462 жыл бұрын
Chapter 1: 1:01:13
@rodrigocortesmora18 Жыл бұрын
Great conference
@inwithon4 жыл бұрын
a fun side dish for Harvey's class, or a great way for newbies to get an overall pic of Marx's ideas in layman's terms is this vid someone shared with me a few years back - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3vYpo2le56Kipo Enjoy!
@wildgoose773 жыл бұрын
Could you please fix the hiss in the audio?
@danieljones94634 жыл бұрын
At 19:00 ish…"Free Gifts Of Human Nature." This caught me by surprise. In relation to the establishment of the "Socially Necessary Value of Something", this caught me by surprise. Question: What might be an example of "Free Gifts Of Human Nature" in this Marxist context?
@ppdashing4 жыл бұрын
From the chart you can see free gifts of human nature flows to reproduction of labour power which happens by reproduction of humans
2 жыл бұрын
58:18 Marx está más interesado en el proceso de la creación de VALOR a travézdel "flow" dinero-mercancia-producción-mercancia-dinero-distribución etc.... La creación del Valor en el proceso. Eso es lo importnte.
@art0hearter5 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting! can you attend these sessions in person?
@Nirmal12462 жыл бұрын
Hey Comrade Ana👋
3 жыл бұрын
47:00 Marxs dialectical method
2 жыл бұрын
1:03:00 La mercancía es una abstracción de lo que se puede hacer con ella y del producto del trabajo y del proceso. De su utilidad!, Valor de uso, valor de intercambio, valor. Tiempo de trabajo socialmente necesario para realizar la mercancía. Dependiendo de la tecnología y la productividad del obrero o sus competencias y habilidades.
2 жыл бұрын
1:01:04 Empieza Capítulo I
3 жыл бұрын
39:15 Volume 1
3 жыл бұрын
30:45 law of motion in the capitalist mode of production
@laurencepeterson84665 жыл бұрын
I've been tempted by a perhaps heretical reformulation of Marx's immortal introductory statement about capitalist production appearing as a great agglomeration of commodities; I'm tempted, and would love to hear Prof. Harvey's(whom I've met, read, and admired) response to this, especially regarding the environmental nightmare, to recast it as follows: now, capitalist production appears as a great accumulation of externalities (more, perhaps, than commodities). I would love to hear Prof.Harvey speak on this.
@colecando5 жыл бұрын
That's an interesting idea. What do you mean by externalities?
@laurencepeterson84665 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the compliment. Externalities is economist-speak for costs of production that are not borne by the producer, but transferred to others, such as consumers or the general public. As such, these costs are not reflected in the price of the commodity offered by the producer. The classic example is pollution: the producer creates the mess and dumps it in the river, or emits it in the air, and the damage will cost the local population in medical bills (or even funerals), and the commodity sold by the producer would cost much more if the costs of cleaning up the pollution were included in the price of the commodity. There are positive externalities, too: being able to watch a sporting event for free if your apartment contains a balcony that overlooks the stadium, for example. So I was saying that, especially given the unbelievable dependence on fossil fuel extraction of virtually all production over several generations, the accumulated and exponential expansion of externalities in this regard alone might overwhelm all the other cost dynamics in the pricing of just about all important commodities and services. But I think I was being too glib here: the commodity, for Marx, as Prof. Harvey would surely insist, is the locus of the central contradictions of capitalist production in a way that, without much reflection, the generation of externalities is not. So I'm not so sure this line of thought is going to be as helpful as I did on the whim that inspired my comment.
@MarvinRoman2 жыл бұрын
What about “capitalism production appears as a great accumulation of commodities that cast shadows of externalities that are inescapable.” Because the externalities seem to be the shadows cast by commodity production, but the mode of production seems central.
@laurencepeterson84662 жыл бұрын
@@MarvinRoman Hi Marvin, thanks for the interesting comment. In response, I would return to Marx's use of the word "appears". As Prof. Harvey has often said, when Marx uses words like this, which Marx does repeatedly at important points, he is trying to prepare us for a certain movement in his analysis. In this case, the reference to appearances should prepare us to watch Marx attempt to develop, with all relevant contradictions, a structural process that involves far more than the mere appearance might suggest in isolation. By doing so, Marx then is able to approach the production process theoretically without remaining focused on the mere appearance of bourgeois market functioning, where most conventional economists are happy to languish. Where things get dicey is my suggestion that capitalist production no longer appears to us so much as an immense collection of commodities, but is beginning to appear to us in the accumulation of externalities that are so rapidly and thoroughly taking hold, and perhaps encroaching on the very appearance of commodities in everyday life. My comment was not a theoretical suggestion so much as a playful invitation for people to try to tease meaning out of it, or to reject it.
@MarvinRoman2 жыл бұрын
@@laurencepeterson8466 I see, I can appreciate what it compels in me to consider. Like when Guy Debord rephrases it in Society of the Spectracle to be an "immense accumulation of spectacles". I would say it's a great way to start a dive into a specific piece of capitalism's effects. However, I guess I still see it downstream from commodity production though. But I am honestly not well grounded in theory which is why I am here trying to get through the MOB mother of all books. It's always intimidated me 😬
3 жыл бұрын
22:03 Purpose according to Marx
@danieljones94634 жыл бұрын
"What Is Socially Necessary?" Quite the question, this.
@danieljones94634 жыл бұрын
Sorry. At 1:13 ish.
@isbestlizard10 ай бұрын
Whoa 2 hours each and there's 12 of them heck this is a LOT of marx but it's still easier than reading. Ok. Let's get a coffee and crack on
@isbestlizard10 ай бұрын
There's more volumes? o.o
@pltq-z3414 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this videos, so can you make the subtitres on French ?
@jacobschwartz77854 жыл бұрын
So you're telling me...that Marx's writing had a lot of...Engles *Badum tiss* Alright, ill be quiet for the lecture now.
@agstinacueva16733 жыл бұрын
😂
@RJ-wb8jx3 жыл бұрын
Is this in podcast mode?
@AtticusHatzis23483 Жыл бұрын
great and exhaustive speech
@rodrigocortes1353 Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@vophie4 жыл бұрын
39:00 capital graph
@TheNextMarx11 ай бұрын
I love David Harvey but this audio quality is so bad 😢 I’ll continue to watch but damn… the static hurts my ears.