Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
David HarveyThe freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
David HarveyMarx 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, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize 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