mercredi 25 novembre 2009

# David Harvey's class on Marx's Capital


davidharvey.org is Harvey's official website and provides the totality of his class (in video) dissecting Marx's Capital in City University of New York. David Harvey who was lecturing last Saturday for the last session of the Oppositional Architecture, claims that the current economic crisis has weakened capitalism enough for us to have the opportunity to interfere. He is calling for an "eco-communism" (as he was saying people freak out when he says he is a communist but much less when he add "eco" to it...) which tackles an interesting issue about whether or not the word "communism" should be still used as Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt think or is this word already too much connoted by the Stalin and Mao experience (which would deserve to be called totalitarian collectivism rather than communism).
Anyway David Harvey's lectures and classes are more than ever worth listening and his website is providing information in a rare generosity which is really appreciable.

5 commentaires:

MARKSOR a dit…

Here we go...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksor/3962822714/sizes/l/

More afraid about eco-fascism/
"eco-totalitarian collectivism" than an eco-communism wich sound kind of friendly.This eco-communism might be something like "Ecologism", that could be a new trendy word to replace the old socialism, a new ideology for a new century, and future revolutions...

Let's wait and see...

Léopold Lambert a dit…

well, David Harvey is not born from the last rain (to literally translate a French expression !).
Re-place the word "communism" in the US context where Mccarthy's shadow is still around and it is extremely bold and not "friendly" at all.
I'd be interested to know what you are calling "eco-fascism" because the threat, as far as I am concerned would be more called an "eco-inquisitionnism" (bonjour les neologismes !!!)...

MARKSOR a dit…

haha! friendly was just to be a bit provocativ. About the inquisition stuff, I think it's part of a totalitarian movement .

etc. a dit…

you had ecommunism just in front of your nose and missed it !

martin a dit…

fuck eco-