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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.

Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens. 

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced with Politics In Motion, a new nonprofit media platform. Consider supporting our work via Patreon.

After five seasons hosted by Professor David Harvey and co-produced by Democracy at Work, all new episodes are now hosted and co-produced with Politics In Motion. 

I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.

Thank you to Dr. Simon Dudek.

Wednesday, October 15, 2024
10am-12pm
Room 9205
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, NYC

Capital/Today

A roundtable discussion of the new English translation of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (Volume One).

Featuring:
Paul Reitter, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Ohio State University
Paul North, Chair and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures,
Yale University
Maria Luisa Mendonça, CPCP, CUNY
David Harvey, CPCP, CUNY

Peter Hitchcock, CPCP, CUNY (moderator)

Reitter (translator and editor) and North (editor) worked for several years to produce the first English translation of Capital in a half century. The panel is particularly interested in not just how the project came to be, but in what it means to have a new translation of Capital available today, when capitalism remains globally present but forms of anti-capitalism have changed demonstrably. Can a new translation affirm that Capital is as dynamic as its subject?

This event is organized by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics.
It is Free and Open to the Public.

Public Lecture: The Story of Capital

Sponsored by the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry
The New School
66 W 12th St
The Auditorium, Room A106
New York, NY 10011

Monday, June 17
5:00PM – 6:30PM EDT

Free event, registration required:

Encuentro Internacional Experiencias locales e internacionales de gestión cultural comunitaria.
FLACSO Ecuador
20 May 2024

Friday May 3, 5PM-8:30 PM & Saturday May 4 10AM-8:30PM

The People’s Forum (320 West 37th Street, New York City)

Register here for the in-person conference.

This event will also be livestreamed;

In her justly-revered book, Abolition Geography, Ruth Wilson Gilmore articulates the prescience of the praxis, politics, and poetics of “abolition” as a central principle of liberation movements and social change. The book is a culmination of decades of Gilmore’s ardent and inexhaustible commitment not just to undo the injustices of the carceral state with its infrastructure of racial capitalism, but to formulate abolition as a condition of revolutionary possibility since, as she puts it, “mass incarceration is class war.”  Far from being a handy metaphor for the combined and uneven development of the world system, the prison is the material instantiation of global inequality where location at scale is a provocation to think activism as also, in its difference and intensities, confronting carcerality in all its manifestations.  

The Center for Place, Culture and Politics’ 2024 conference intends to honor Gilmore’s contribution–in activism, politics, pedagogy, and theory—to an abolitionist agenda and is also crucially an invitation to think with her work on future imbrications of abolitionism with anti-racism, anti-capitalism, and anti-colonialism among a provocative array of allegiance to radical social transformation.  In this way the conference not only celebrates a career, but extends it.

Click Here for more information on the conference, program, and speakers.

Conference Program:

Friday, May 3 

5:15 Welcome  

5:30-6:50 24 years of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics Kandice Chuh, Peter Hitchcock, David Harvey, Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine 

7:00-8:20 Keynote Dialogue Rabab Abdulhadi and Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation 

Saturday, May 4  

9:45 Welcome 

10:00-11:50 Thinking the State  Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma, Giacomo Bianchino, Christina M. Chica, Lexington Davis, Anthony Dest, Javiela Evangelista, Thauany Freire, Cynthia Yuan Gao, Nour Mohamad Jamil Hodeib, Zahra Khalid, Nerve V. Macaspac, Maria Luisa Mendonça, Laura Rivas, Benjamin Rubin, Shreya Subramani, Dominic Wetzel 

12:00-1:30 Pedagogies of Third World Marxism  Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma, Zoe Alexander, Michele Cannon, Vincent DeLaurentis, Patrick DeDauw, Khouloud Mallak, Gabriel Meier, Meraz Mostafa, Brendan O’Connor, Bryan Welton 

1:30-2:30 Lunch
  
2:30-4:30 Militant Knowledges Sonia Vaz Borges, Vijay Prashad, Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper 

4:40-6:50 The Politics of Struggle /Abolition Futures Ujju Aggarwal, Mizue Aizeki, Miriam Ticktin, Laura Y. Liu 

6:50-8:30 Celebration 

More information available on the CPCP website.This conference is organized and sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, the Graduate Center, CUNY and cosponsored by the Global Studies program, The New School and The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

It is free and open to the public. 

Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens. 

David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced with Politics In Motion, a new nonprofit media platform. Consider supporting our work via Patreon.

After five seasons hosted by Professor David Harvey and co-produced by Democracy@Work, all new episodes will now be hosted and co-produced with Politics In Motion. You can listen to all previous podcasts here or watch them in YouTube.

From Verso Books:

“For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. In addition, his work on the history and geography of capitalist development has transformed our understanding of neoliberalism and the spread of inequalities across the globe.

In this in-depth interview with Verso, Harvey recalls the formation of his Marxist ideas, intellectual influences, and writing. He also talks about the growth of the populist right and how that is connected to geographical electoral splits, Marx’s Grundrisse (which he has written a companion to), and Marx’s theories more broadly.

In this shorter video, taken from the above, Harvey talks about Marx’s Grundrisse (and why the Covid lockdown meant he finally wrote a companion to Marx’s infamous notebooks):

He is interviewed in both these videos by Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director, Verso Books.

David Harvey’s Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse, published earlier this year, builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital. See all our Essential David Harvey reading here!”