Two part David Harvey interview.
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Urban Revolution: An Interview with David Harvey (Part 1)
David Harvey is one of the world’s leading Marxist theorists. He discussed the themes from his new book, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to Urban Revolution, with NLP co-editors John Brissenden and Ed Lewis.
Originally posted at New Left Project
John: Would you say there’s a central argument to Rebel Cities, or is it more by way of bringing a range of arguments together?
David: I think it’s a bit of both. If there is a central argument, it’s really chapter 2 (‘The Urban Roots of Capitalist Crises’) and chapter 5 (‘Reclaiming the City for Anticapitalist Struggle’), chapter 2 essentially being about the…
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it is interesting that wall st. is using the police against the protestors so that the wall st. criminals don’t go to jail.
and if the revolution is taking over the means of production, and the city has been transformed into the site of production, and is in fact the means of production, especially in an era where the accelerated circulation of production is in fact much of the production, then taking over the means of production in the service of revolutionary transformation must become synonymous with taking over the city. this seems to me to be the first logical step toward a manageable form of direct democracy in the globalized world….