Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle

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  • čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
  • Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey
    Recorded on 10 May 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building.
    Given the strong relationship between urbanization and capital accumulation, and the consequent urban roots of both past and present fiscal crises, it follows that the city is a key arena within which class forces clash. The sharpening of these clashes transforms movements for the right to the city into urban uprisings and revolutionary movements. This then poses the key question of how to mobilize and organize a whole city around a movement for revolutionary change.
    David Harvey is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent books include A Companion to Marx's Capital; The Enigma of Capital (Deutscher Prize, 2010); and Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution.
    mp3 audio podcast available here - www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/vi...

Komentáře • 44

  • @vvcc1805
    @vvcc1805 Před 10 lety +9

    Brilliant and amazing. David Harvey is an excellent scholar and extremely intuitive.

  • @megansalt
    @megansalt Před 12 lety +1

    Inspiring. Thank you.

  • @johnmclean8167
    @johnmclean8167 Před 9 lety +7

    Solidarity from Hamilton, Ontario. Rustbelt city now feeling the pressures of gentrification. We need a federation of REBEL CITIES

  • @90killers
    @90killers Před 12 lety +3

    He is a good man, a good man with a good beard.

  • @alsoadsepultura8054
    @alsoadsepultura8054 Před 3 lety

    26:52 what does that guy say and gets rejected SO HARD?

  • @KbcBerlin
    @KbcBerlin Před 10 lety +1

    I dont think personal opting out, if feasible, is worth very much, but only as satisfaction to the individual, I do myself when possible. I dont expect my action to do much, but I feel better not complying all the time.
    But I think its a bit like being in a large group proposing to rob a bank, and opting out. Its probably not going to make any difference to the outcome except you are the one without the money, and not chased by the law.

  • @syndicat4847
    @syndicat4847 Před 6 lety +1

    The use of trades councils to organize the working class is a concept developed and used by the Anarcho-Syndicalists.

  • @shiyanahunter6874
    @shiyanahunter6874 Před 8 lety +5

    is there a transcript available?

  • @fmagalhaesbhz
    @fmagalhaesbhz Před 12 lety +3

    remember kalecki: workers spend what they earn. capitalists earn what they spend.

  • @MincPubInc
    @MincPubInc Před 11 lety +3

    while i havent given him the time that some have, after conversing with dedicated marxist's it has been acknowledged that a free society (anarcho-communitarianism) based on labor federations and technological production is its ultimate end. that said- communists have a choice to make- stick the book, according to marx, or embrace what trotsky called 'permanent revolution; or, an unceasing move towards shedding the state actively. the principles of that transformation are not inherent in marx

  • @MincPubInc
    @MincPubInc Před 11 lety +1

    anarchist communism is the only stateless entity i know of in modern communist practice ala- the paris commune, or the ukrain during the Bolshevic revolution... but take a look at how those turned out.
    the state is a bureaucracy that seeks to limit the progress of the people, to keep a record of progress
    there is no possible way for an accountant to keep up with the pace of a people united, and for that reason uniting people has been a major taboo in modern society.
    (collective bargaining(union)

  • @863mes
    @863mes Před 4 lety

    Why must the answer always be politicization? Why not community? Art? Voluntary associations leading to good governance? DeTocqueville showed American culture is unique for its voluntary associations. Why not play to the strengths?

    • @suburbiaKID
      @suburbiaKID Před 4 lety +1

      I’m sure DeToqueville would come to a very different conclusion if he was writing on American culture in the 21st century.

    • @suburbiaKID
      @suburbiaKID Před 4 lety +1

      None of these are relative strengths of American society today.

  • @skstan1965
    @skstan1965 Před 8 lety

    capital has to control urbanization. mortgage controls unions through debt. 21:00

  • @KbcBerlin
    @KbcBerlin Před 10 lety +2

    Felipe Magalhães
    "capitalists earn what they spend" Joker
    Now that's just a plain bare faced lie.

  • @MincPubInc
    @MincPubInc Před 11 lety

    Socialism is a process of addressing the lowest tier of society in order to ensure the safety of the highest. It is a reformist reinforcement of classism. You may be referring to Communism, which holds the goal of a 'workers state'- effectively consuming class differentiation; yet the massive bureaucratic State apparatus is only fallible, as historic experiments with communism have shown.

  • @GalenAus
    @GalenAus Před 11 lety

    Communism is stateless mate

  • @LEO-xo9cz
    @LEO-xo9cz Před 5 lety

    Hypocrisy....

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert1 Před 2 lety

    leave the city .. it's about to collapse .. including LSE!

  • @MincPubInc
    @MincPubInc Před 11 lety

    anarchist communism is the only stateless entity i know of in modern communist practice ala- the paris commune, or the ukrain during the Bolshevic revolution... but take a look at how those turned out.
    the state is a bureaucracy that seeks to limit the progress of the people, to keep a record of progress
    there is no possible way for an accountant to keep up with the pace of a people united, and for that reason uniting people has been a major taboo in modern society.
    (collective bargaining(union)