David HarveyThinkers

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Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body politic, spreading out, sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood, into every nook and cranny of the inhabited world.

Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.

The Capitalist is one who, regardless of where he is, pursues the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

The City is essential to capitalism in that it secures a place for its recurring economic crises and distorts class struggle.

Cosmopolitanism is the wrong-headed presupposition that a fictitious, abstracted, isolated, and deracinated individual when no such creature actually exist.

Globalization is not an undifferentiated unity, but rather a geographically articulated patterning of global capitalist activities and relations.

Historical geographical materialism is the study of the connections between the dynamics of capitalist economy and space and time.

The NGO is problematic in that NGO provisions take the place of government provisions, thus accelerating the scaling back of the state.

The Postmodern is a condition in which 'the temporary contract' supplants 'permanent institutions in the professional, emotional, sexual, cultural, family and international domains, as well as in political affairs.