[D66] David Harvey on Marx

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David Harvey on Marx
Date:
9 October 2014
Location:
De Balie, Amsterdam

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a
surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins
of our current crisis. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written
and lectured on Karl Marx Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost
Marx scholars.

This evening David Harvey will explain why a fundamental revision of the
dominant Marx interpretation is necessary and what makes Capital a book
that changed the course of history and, as Harvey suggests, may do so
again. According to Harvey we should better read Marx instead of Piketty
as he writes:

“There is much that is valuable in Piketty’s data sets. But his
explanation as to why the inequalities and oligarchic tendencies arise
is seriously flawed. His proposals as to the remedies for the
inequalities are naïve if not utopian. And he has certainly not produced
a working model for capital of the twenty-first century. For that we
still need Marx or his modern-day equivalent.”

About David Harvey:
David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and
the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief
History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion
to Marx's Capital.

For more information and tickets go to de website of De Balie