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Světově uznávaný teoretik a sociální vědec David Harvey, považovaný za jednoho z nejpronikavějších analytiků kapitalismu, se ve své knize zamýšlí nad povahou krizí tohoto systému, které ho provázejí od jeho vzniku, a nad aktuální systémovou krizí. Kapitalismus se s krizemi dosud vždy vypořádal, avšak vždy to mělo svou cenu. Tento systém nikdy nevyřešil svůj základní problém, exponenciální akumulaci kapitálu, ale pouze jej odsunul do budoucna a do jiných oblastí. Dnešní situace, umocněná globalizací, je však vyostřenější než kdy dříve a kapitalismus nemusí současné turbulence přežít. Klíčovou otázkou je, zda střední a nižší třídy, které nesou tíhu řešení, budou ochotny zaplatit vysokou cenu za jeho přežití, nebo se účinně vzepřou. Jejich odpor však potřebuje politický výraz, což je v současném úpadku levice obtížné. Aby se levice opět vzchopila, musí se vyrovnat s politickými představiteli kapitálu v jejich schopnosti působit ve všech sférách a přicházet s inovativními nápady. Významná část knihy se věnuje analýze těchto schopností a tomu, co „dělá“ kapitál, a zároveň vyzývá k odmítnutí levicového doktrinářství.

“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…”The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars.Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.David Harvey’s video lecture course can be found here: davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administrations and replace the politics of fear with neighborhood power, direct democracy, and solidarity. They believe that threats of capitalism, totalitarianism, and climate change require imaginative political resistance rooted where they live. Combining political theory, philosophy, history, and intimate narrative, Take the City presents an expansive view of municipalist movements around the world. With over twenty contributors, including David Harvey, this anthology provides crucial insights into the challenges ahead by looking at and beyond municipal electoral politics. Stories of diverse regions and issues illuminate the nuances of municipalist movements of the past and present, providing a roadmap of the fight for our future. From Seattle to Kurdistan, Burlington to Oaxaca, Barcelona to Mississippi, and Vienna to Montreal, contributors carefully consider the intertwined questions concerning current crises in housing, the environment, democracy, and capitalism.

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With previously unpublished photographs, the author documents the history of Birmingham's Crossley buses.

"The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close and Marx's work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's most foremost Marx scholars.Based on his recent lectures, and following the success of his companion to the first volume of Capital, Harvey turns his attention to Volume 2, aiming to bring his depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and hitherto neglected text. Whereas Volume 1 focuses on production, Volume 2 looks at how the circuits of capital, the buying and selling of goods, realize value.This is a must-read for everyone concerned to acquire a fuller understanding of Marx's political economy"-- Provided by publisher

David Harvey is unquestionably the most influential, as well as the most cited, geographer of his generation. This book brings together for the first time seminal articles published over three decades on the tensions between geographical knowledges and political power and on the capitalist production of space. schovat popis

Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has been tracking the evolution of the capitalist system as well as tides of radical opposition rising against it. In The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Harvey introduces new ways of understanding the crisis of global capitalism and the struggles for a better world. While accounting for violence and disaster, Harvey also chronicles hope and possibility. By way of conversations about neoliberalism, capitalism, globalization, the environment, technology, social movements and crises like COVID-19, he outlines, with characteristic brilliance, how socialist alternatives are being imagined under very difficult circumstances. In understanding the economic, political and social dimensions of the crisis, Harvey’s analysis in The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles will be of strategic importance to anyone wanting to both understand and change the world.

In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.