David Harvey examines the relationship between wage repression, rising housing costs, and homelessness, presenting a stark critique of capitalist systems that prioritize speculative profits over meeting basic housing needs. He explores how inflation in housing markets, driven by financial speculation and companies like Blackstone, exacerbates economic inequality. Harvey critiques the Democratic Party’s failure to propose robust housing policies that address the needs of the 50% of Americans livi...
Jan 31, 2025•29 min•Season 7Ep. 2
David Harvey reflects on the challenges of addressing inflation and wage repression in the U.S., especially for the 50% of the population struggling to live on $30,000–$40,000 a year. He critiques the Democratic Party's failure to focus on the economic needs of this group, emphasizing that inflation, despite slowing, continues to affect them due to stagnant wages and rising price levels. Harvey advocates for a political program centered on wage augmentation, similar to recent union-negotiated wa...
Jan 06, 2025•22 min•Season 7Ep. 1
[S6 E04] Revolt and Recession: The Global Crisis of Higher Education and Work David Harvey reflects on recent protests in Bangladesh as a "canary in the coal mine" for growing global discontent over unequal job opportunities and socioeconomic divides. He explores parallels between the unrest in Bangladesh, Iran, and student movements of the 1960s, highlighting the role of higher education and the precarious job market in fueling frustration. Harvey also delves into the potential impact of automa...
Nov 03, 2024•29 min•Season 6Ep. 5
[S6 E04] The Politics of Clans and Castes David Harvey explores Marx's theory of the capitalist mode of production, emphasizing the importance of understanding both the inner structure and external dynamics of this system. Harvey highlights the contradiction inherent in commodities, where use value and exchange value often clash. He discusses how this contradiction, as outlined by Marx, shapes the entire mode of production. Harvey expands this into a broader discussion on the social formation, e...
Sep 06, 2024•43 min•Season 6Ep. 4
[S6 E02] World War 3: The Resonance of Unwritten History Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org David Harvey reflects on the eerie similarities between current global political and economic tensions and those of the 1930s, suggesting a potential repetition of history that could lead to World War III. Drawing on Marx's notion that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, Harvey questions whether ...
Mar 28, 2024•30 min•Season 6Ep. 3
Politics In Motion Live #1: From the Labor Theory of Value to Homelessness. Q&A with David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Durán. Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Join David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Duran for a compelling Patreon discussion on the intersections of politics, economics, and society. The conversation begins with the origins and aspirations of "Politics in Motion," setting expectations for the yea...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 2
[S6 E01] Beyond Borders: Class, Nation & Nationalism Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Professor Harvey investigates a very difficult and thorny problem, not only for Marxists, but for everyone, which is how to understand the concept of nation and the role of nationalism and what nationalism might do to our thinking when it is inserted into the theoretical discussion of how capital works. Harvey interrog...
Jan 04, 2024•40 min•Season 6Ep. 1
[S5.5 E08] The Politics of Humiliation Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org In his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, economist John Maynard Keynes warned against the humiliation of Germany at the end of World War I. Keynes argued that if you deal with Germany by humiliating it and draining it of any economic possibilities, keeping it lost underground as it were, there will be instability all across ...
Dec 21, 2023•34 min•Season 5Ep. 8
[S5.5 E07] The Question of Debt in Our Lives Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Last week Professor Harvey pointed out that the basic means by which consumerism is developed in such a way is to be consistent with the growth of an economy based upon profit seeking was to expand indebtedness. But it turns out that the credit system and the circulation of interest-bearing capital on the development of indebtedne...
Nov 15, 2023•22 min•Season 5Ep. 7
[S5.5 E06] Where Does Profit Come From? Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Professor Harvey takes us back to the very origins of Marx’s Capital by asking the questions, where does profit come from and what are the consequences of profit making? Harvey discusses how the debates between Ricardo and Malthus informed Marx’s answers to those questions. He then turns to Rosa Luxemburg’s insights into the role of im...
Nov 01, 2023•25 min•Season 5Ep. 6
[S5.5 E05] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Mass and the Politics of Scale Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Professor Harvey discusses the UAW strike and the transformation of the automobile industry. He argues that mere electrification of the automobile cannot solve the environmental crisis. The sheer scale at which capital is now working is radically different from that which existed in Marx's time. The growth...
Oct 04, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 5
[S5.5 E4] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Return of McCarthyism (Part 2) — On The New York Times and other Liberal Media Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Professor Harvey discusses the media “red scare” on China and the current persecution of the socialist American philanthropist Roy Singham by The New York Times and Senator Marco Rubio. Roy Singham is the funder of several initiatives of the American left,...
Sep 13, 2023•26 min•Season 5Ep. 4
[S5.5 E3] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Return of McCarthyism (Part 1) Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Professor Harvey discusses the persecution of the scholar Owen Lattimore at the hands of Joseph McCarthy. Owen Lattimore was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations. Lattimore taught at John’s Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963 and then from 1963 to 1970, h...
Aug 30, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 3
[S5.5 E02] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Capitalist Social Formation vs. OUR PLANET! Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org Professor Harvey discusses the relationship between the mode of production of capital and the context of its social formation. In the previous episode, Harvey shared his analysis of the capitalist mode of production from the standpoint of the emancipated laborer. Now, he further explains the m...
Aug 16, 2023•23 min•Season 5Ep. 2
[PNM S5 E01] Workers Unite! Emancipation from the Capitalist Totality Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org In this analysis of the capitalist totality, Professor Harvey provides a critical examination of the exploitative nature of capitalism from the perspective of the emancipated worker. The capitalist totality refers to the all-encompassing system of capitalism, which affects every aspect of modern society, i...
Jun 28, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 1
