If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.
David HarveyThe 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 HarveyThe right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.
David HarveyWe'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 HarveyTechnological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
David HarveyWhat sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?
David Harvey