Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.
David HarveyIndividual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
David HarveyThe only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
David HarveyIf, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?
David Harvey