In this episode of ACC, Prof. Harvey examines what is happening in China today, the many changes taking place within (the formation of a billionaire class, uneven geographical development between metropolitan cities and rural areas, a cultural

The Financialization of Power

Nov 15th, 2018 19m 27s

Financial services become part of GDP in the 1970s and legitimize the power of financial institutions.

World War 3: The Resonance of Unwritten History

Mar 28th, 2024 29m 51s

[S6 E02] World War 3: The Resonance of Unwritten HistoryStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgDavid Harvey reflects on the eerie similarities between current gl

Politics In Motion Live #1: From the Labor Theory of Value to Homelessness. Q&A with David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Durán.

Jan 19th, 2024 1h 2m

Politics In Motion Live #1: From the Labor Theory of Value to Homelessness. Q&A with David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Durán.Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org

Beyond Borders: Class, Nation & Nationalism

Jan 4th, 2024 39m 48s

[S6 E01] Beyond Borders: Class, Nation & NationalismStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey investigates a very difficult and thorny problem, not

The Politics of Humiliation

Dec 21st, 2023 33m 37s

[S5.5 E08] The Politics of HumiliationStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgIn his book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, economist John Maynard Keynes w

The Question of Debt in Our Lives

Nov 15th, 2023 21m 45s

[S5.5 E07] The Question of Debt in Our LivesStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgLast week Professor Harvey pointed out that the basic means by which consumeri

Where Does Profit Come From?

Nov 1st, 2023 25m 28s

[S5.5 E06] Where Does Profit Come From?Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey takes us back to the very origins of Marx’s Capital by asking the

Mass and the Politics of Scale

Oct 4th, 2023 23m 53s

[S5.5 E05] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Mass and the Politics of ScaleStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the UAW strike and the tra

The Return of McCarthyism (Part 2) — On The New York Times and other Liberal Media

Sep 13th, 2023 26m

[S5.5 E4] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Return of McCarthyism (Part 2) — On The New York Times and other Liberal MediaStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgPr

The Return of McCarthyism (Part 1)

Aug 30th, 2023 29m 46s

[S5.5 E3] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Return of McCarthyism (Part 1)Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the persecution of the

Capitalist Social Formation vs. OUR PLANET!

Aug 16th, 2023 23m 8s

[S5.5 E02] Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Capitalist Social Formation vs. OUR PLANET!Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgProfessor Harvey discusses the relations

Workers Unite! Emancipation from the Capitalist Totality

Jun 28th, 2023 28m 39s

[PNM S5 E01] Workers Unite! Emancipation from the Capitalist TotalityStay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.orgIn this analysis of the capitalist totality, Professo

An Important Update from David Harvey

May 24th, 2023 2m 17s

Please keep an eye out for more episodes from Anti Capitalist Chronicles host David Harvey at an exciting new media organization: Politics in Motion! You can learn more at www.politicsinmotion.org Anti-Capitalist Chronicles will no longer be pr

US Indebtedness & Capitalism’s Internal Contradictions

May 8th, 2023 26m 6s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalism Chronicles, Prof. Harvey explores the issue of US indebtedness. Drawing on various Marxist theories—the coercive laws of competition, the falling rate of profit, and capitalism’s irrationality—Harvey explains

The Corporatization of Academia

Apr 20th, 2023 26m 6s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey reflects on how universities in the US have shifted and evolved under advanced capitalism to function more and more like corporations. The ethos of the academic model is no longer abo

Housing in a Broken System

Apr 6th, 2023 29m 16s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey shares major lessons he learned while studying the housing issue in Baltimore in the late 1960s and asking the questions: Why is housing quality so appalling in low-income areas? Why

Daniel Ellsberg, Government Dishonesty & Nuclear Weapons

Mar 23rd, 2023 24m 22s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey explores the contributions made by Daniel Ellsberg, the political activist known for releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ellsberg gave the public a look into the ways in which the U

The Circulation of Fictitious Capital

Mar 9th, 2023 37m 21s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey explains Marx’s analytical techniques of presupposition and posit and applies them to today’s capital circulation system and the crises that may emerge from the ever-growing fictitious

The Impact of War on Civilians

Feb 23rd, 2023 20m 17s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey focuses on the impact of war on civilians, both today in Ukraine and historically. While it is a war crime to attack civilian populations, there is a long, deadly history of it. From t

Applying Marx’s Theories to Contemporary Struggles

Feb 9th, 2023 40m 52s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey focuses on the concept of totality, conceptualized in Marx’s Grundrisse, and the importance of situating theoretical frameworks within on-the-ground struggles. Harvey explains how he’s

Making Sense of Today’s Inflation - Debt, Austerity and Tax Cuts

Jan 26th, 2023 30m 18s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey uses the diagram of capital’s circulatory processes, shared in the last episode, and applies it to the pressing issue of inflation today. Harvey draws parallels to how inflation was h

Capital in Motion

Jan 12th, 2023 32m 14s

Welcome to Season 5! In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey discusses the ever-expanding circulatory systems of capital. He shares a diagram, designed by fellow d@w host Miguel Robles-Duran (Cities After…), which illustrate

Mainstreaming Marxism & Redefining Capitalism

Dec 15th, 2022 40m 46s

In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Prof. Harvey considers the hostility and glorification of ignorance—a legacy of McCarthyism—towards the teachings of Marx, especially within academia and the mainstream media. Academia has become a

Pedagogy of the Emancipated Laborer

Dec 1st, 2022 34m 52s

As more and more people begin to recognize the pitfalls of the systems we're entrenched in—capitalism, neoliberalism, consumerism, and more—we are often left without clear directions for instilling change. In this episode of Anti-Capitalist Chr