1. I watched the entire of David Harvey’s lectures on “Das Kapital” about two years ago. I admire the fact that he reads the book through again and again each year has done so for years. However, it’s notable that he treats it like literature, not economics or philosophy.
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4. The purpose of Harvey and is course is to be “improving”. He sometimes crops up giving lectures to technocrats in South Korea or wherever on the “city and the commons”. The point isn’t geographical or economic. The point is to deliver a sermon to “remember the poors”.
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5. It’s rather like “Our Marx” and “Our Ford” in Brave New World. Marx and Kapital is materialist enough to be a kind of stand-in for God and the Church. “Think of the poors...or revolution!” No one actually acts on the sermon, but everyone nods earnestly.
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