David Harvey
THE NEW IMPERIALISM
Afterword to Foreign Language Editions
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The question of the exact state of global oil supplies and reserves
remains as murky as ever. In my initial text, I stated, for example,
that oil reserves in Canada are running down. If, however, the
difficult
someone said: I am disappointed that David Harvey believes that a global
New Deal would accomplish anything. It didn't the first time around. WWII
lifted the USA out of the depression, not deficit spending.
this is misconceived. It was the deficit spending based on the war spending
associated
Devine, James wrote:
someone said: I am disappointed that David Harvey believes that a global
New Deal would accomplish anything. It didn't the first time around. WWII
lifted the USA out of the depression, not deficit spending.
this is misconceived. It was the deficit spending based on the war
I am disappointed that David Harvey believes that a global New Deal would
accomplish anything. It didn't the first time around. WWII lifted the USA out of
the depression, not deficit spending.
I wrote: this is misconceived. It was the deficit spending based on the war spending
associated
I have no brief for Soros. I don't see why he's relevant here. He seems to
represent simply a different fraction of the capitalist class than the one
that's currently dominant.
Haven't got time to deal with this in detail, but obviously for Soros money
isn't the root of all evil. That provides a
, 2003 9:29 AM
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I have no brief for Soros. I don't see why he's relevant
here. He seems to
represent simply a different fraction of the capitalist class
than the one
that's currently dominant.
Haven't got
Devine, James wrote:
Soros seems the type of capitalist who would join a
social-democratic alliance (or a new New Deal) if we had one
For what it's worth, someone who knows Soros fairly well told me he
describes himself as a social democrat.
Doug
Iranian leftists missed the window of opportunity to oppose clerics
in defense of women's rights and to even direct the revolution to the
left shortly after the overthrow of the Shah -- when they still could.
--
Yoshie
no mass worker organizations in iran at time of revo...left parties
small,
Q. In The New Imperialism (2003), you do not seem to argue against
imperialism as such. In fact, you seem to see it as unavoidable in the world
today. Could you perhaps elaborate on your position? How would you
distinguish your own vision of imperialism from that espoused by the current
Republican
David Harvey:
The danger is that anti-imperialist
movements may become purely and wholeheartedly anti-modernist movements
rather than seeking an alternative globalization and an alternative
modernity that makes full use of the potential that capitalism has spawned.
I wish I knew what this meant
movements of all time. That is no excuse
for opposing them.
A couple of points:
* I think that David Harvey is mistaken in believing that Islamic
radicalism is necessarily anti-modernist (if Islamic radicalism is
indeed what he has in his mind, that is). Islamic radicalism tends
to be very sexist
I am disappointed that David Harvey believes that a global New Deal would
accomplish anything. It didn't the first time around. WWII lifted the USA
out of the depression, not deficit spending.
Disappointment is neither here nor there, I would think, the point is to
understand the analysis
From chapter two (All About Oil) in David Harvey's The New Imperialism,
Oxford 2003
I briefly review this history here in order to make two basic points. Since
1945 there has been a steady escalation of US involvement in the region,
marked by a significant break after 1980 as the involvement came
of packed lectures in Oxford, Professor David Harvey, one of the
world's most distinguished geographers, has provided what may be the first
comprehensive explanation of the US government's determination to go to war.
His analysis suggests that it has little to do with Iraq, less to do with
weapons
I thought it simply demystifies an expansionist process and pinpoints the real enemy as capital, that being a detrimental social relationship tying up all, and allemerging events in the present epoch of history. It sort of makes the life process of humanity one and the same and bridges
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34837] George Monbiot and David Harvey
this is an interesting article, but as Monbiot portrays it, Harvey's analysis is too mechanical and too pat.
The idea seems to be that a structural specific economic problem (under-use of industrial capacity) provokes the ruling class
disease, become the world's most urgent humanitarian concern? Why
has it become so much more pressing than any other that it should command a
budget four times the size of America's entire annual spending on overseas
aid?
In a series of packed lectures in Oxford, Professor David Harvey, one
(From an interview in the July/August 2000 New Left Review. Although I
number myself as one of the most bloodthirsty critics of "Justice, Nature
the Geography of Difference" on the planet, I found Harvey's reflections
most salutary in their honesty. This honesty was in fact present in the
David Harvey and the American Indian
In his latest book, Justice, Nature the Geography of Difference, David
Harvey questions the ecological sensitivity of the American Indian, whom
the Greens allegedly romanticize (Harvey 1996). We cannot conclude, he
says, that American Indian practices
(From Harvey's "Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference")
Leibniz made a strong distinction between possible and compossible worlds.
While the former embraces an infinite variety of potential creative
choices, the latter restricts the spatial relations internalized within a
particular
Louis, can you elaborate on your post about Harvey and Leibniz and material
destruction of the earth? I don't understand the attention he gives
Leibniz; my eyes glazed over in these sections of the book.
Bill Burgess
Harvey's attack on Perelman, O'Connor and Foster has tended to be seen in
Louis, can you elaborate on your post about Harvey and Leibniz and material
destruction of the earth? I don't understand the attention he gives
Leibniz; my eyes glazed over in these sections of the book.
Bill Burgess
y, housing and small-scale irrigation)
strategy, and can contribute to doing so in SA's second poorest
province (the Eastern Cape), it'd be nice to chat, also privately, so
as not to bore the list.
To comrade boddhisatva, surely Pen-L folk will forgive your
personality mischaracterisation of Da
To whom,
All I can say about Harvey is that I ate crabs with him one time and
he semed like a little bit of a stiff. His wife[girlfriend?] seemed nice,
though. A latina if I remember rightly, C. Bond?
BTW C. Bond I think we have a mutual
To whom...,
Marxists who waste their time denouncing cars are doomed.
peace
I've been reading all this with interest. As a doctoral student of
David's in the mid-late 1980s, I'll attest to his staple gun prowess. When
anti-apartheid shanties were firebombed one May 1986 night at 2AM
(one of his other students was badly burned) and then -- predictably
-- banned by JHU
At 09:55 PM 4/30/98 -0400, Mike Yates wrote:
I don't like cars much either, but at present I have to have one. If I
lost it,
I'd be in a bad way. Sme too with the workers who are threatened with plant
closings. What are they supposed to do in the meantime? Sit back and
enjoy the
cleaner air?
, the big question for me is not the Rover plant closing, or
Harvey's life-style. It is ecosocialism. I never had a critical word to say
about David Harvey in the past and, as you know, took the trouble to write
up a report on his speech on the Communist Manifesto to the Brecht Forum in
NYC. I never
Patrick - I now get the Pen-L posts directly, so please don;t forward anymore! Also
you seem to send me everything twice (to 2 different email addresses maybe?). Please
just use my igc box for now.
Really enjoyed your E Cape history in the Stutterheim paper. Is that Colin Bundy? Was
that his
Dennis Redmond:
On the contrary, it's the *central* problem for revolutionary socialists.
Cars suck, Lou, and so do the companies which foist them on people.
The closing of the Rover plant in the name of capitalist profit set back
the cause of socialism, just as all the other plant closings in
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
Harvey was like Hamlet on the
question of keeping the Rover plant open. "To keep open, or not to keep
open--that is the question" was heard from his lips as paced the quad at
Oxford in the lonely hours of the night. And what was the big factor that
I hold no brief for the Sierra Club, the largest of the corporate environmentalist
groups. But the 40% vote for the anti-immigrant rule is not completely reflective of
their membership. From what I understand there was a massive last minute purchase
of memberships by right wing groups to push
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The business about
identifying with the African-Americans in the jazz club who implicitly view
Earth Day as a "white thing" is really key to the book, since he regards
any environmental
strongly identify with David Harvey, who as Jim Blaut said on M-I, is
a saint compared to most professors, even leftish ones.
The point is that Harvey has made his latest book a combination of
political theory and autobiographical confession. The reason he wrote the
book was to try to come
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Louis, I for one find personal criticisms of David Harvey
At 05:39 PM 4/29/98 -0700, you wrote:
Louis, I for one find personal criticisms of David Harvey to be useless.
I'll bet he has character flaws, since everyone else does (including that
old hairy German guy who wrote so much). The question is: what are the
theoretical and/or empirical holes in his
I had written:
Louis, I for one find personal criticisms of David Harvey to be useless.
I'll bet he has character flaws, since everyone else does (including that
old hairy German guy who wrote so much). The question is: what are the
theoretical and/or empirical holes in his perspective? I know
Friends,
I don't like cars much either, but at present I have to have one. If I lost it,
I'd be in a bad way. Sme too with the workers who are threatened with plant
closings. What are they supposed to do in the meantime? Sit back and enjoy the
cleaner air? Of course, we have to push for a
Louis, I for one find personal criticisms of David Harvey to be useless.
I'll bet he has character flaws, since everyone else does (including that
old hairy German guy who wrote so much). The question is: what are the
theoretical and/or empirical holes in his perspective? I know you've talked
I'm intrigued by the reference to Mike Cooley in LP's last post on
Rover. First, what is Cooley doing these days? Has he written anything
we can get our hands on in the US? Second, why didn't South End reprint
the revised version of his ARCHITECT OR BEE?, which is much better (IMO)
than the
fuel cell technology;
naturally no-one was interested. These weren't just a bunch of labour
union dinosaurs; I went to some of their meetings myself, with people from
the Conference of Socialist Economists. David Harvey drifted like an
angst-ridden wraith thru all this. Meanwhile the Thatcher govt
You may be right Harvey is unaware of the Bolshevic record. It is an
imporant point we need to know more about. I'm sceptical about calling it
"radical ecologist" though. Calling Nazis radical ecologists is a bit
strained too, except in Harvey's context of how some wings of the
movement embrace
to see David Harvey raise this canard in 1998.
You may be right Harvey is unaware of the Bolshevic record. It is an
imporant point we need to know more about. I'm sceptical about calling it
"radical ecologist" though. Calling Nazis radical ecologists is a bit
strained too, except in Harvey
and
environmentalism first came up in the 1970s, when the Springer press in
Germany wrote unceasingly about Nazi youth in lederhosen going out on
nature hikes. It is depressing to see David Harvey raise this canard in 1998.
Harvey's
political complaint is that middle class environmentalism fixates
I'm glad Louis P. intends to look at David Harvey's new book more
carefully, because I think Harvey has been somewhat misrepresented (there
are clearly also real political differences).
Harvey is no point-of-production-only 'Marxist'. Quite the contrary. I
don't know what he said on this at the
David Harvey spoke on the Communist Manifesto last night at NYC's Brecht
Forum as part of a year-long celebration of its 150th anniversary. Harvey
has some of the most interesting insights into the Marxist classics today,
especially involving questions of their "spatial" dimension
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