David Harvey Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• 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.

  David Harvey

  Fall, Class, Surrender

  David Harvey (2010). “The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism”, p.260, Oxford University Press

• We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.

  David Harvey

  Entrepreneur, Competition, Capitalist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

• Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

  David Harvey

  Land, Quagmire, May

  "The Limits to Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

• Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Financial, Finance, Concentration

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

  David Harvey

  Snakes, Skins, Peculiar

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Technological Change, Force, Technological

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

  David Harvey

  Mean, Ideas, Giving

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Way, Individual, Capitalist

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

  David Harvey

  Long, World, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

  David Harvey

  Contradiction, Abolition, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

  David Harvey

  Spheres, Social, Existence

  "The Limits to Capital". Book by David Harvey, 2006 VERSO Edition,

• The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Political, Economy, Social

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

• There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

  David Harvey

  Running, Long, Contradiction

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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