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A Financial Katrina - Remarks by David Harvey

If you're not in Greece, and need something to do this Christmas, you could do worse than check out David Harvey's website, which now includes his entire series of lessons on Volume One of Marx's Capital, both as video and downloadable audio.

As well as that great resource, he has also been putting up the audio from a number of his talks on the financial crisis, the latest of which can be found below.

[Of course, if you ARE in Greece, and are reading this instead of making new Molotov cocktails, you should be ashamed of yourself. Really...]
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A Financial Katrina
Remarks by Professor David Harvey
From “The Disruption: Left Interpretations of the Financial Crisis” Panel Discussion
Organized by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, the Center for Humanities and the Brecht Forum
City University of New York Graduate Center
October 29, 2008
26 minutes 33 seconds

Listen now:

Or download MP3 file (24.4 MB)

(To download on a PC right-click on the above file and click ‘Save as’ or ‘Download to’. On a Mac Control-click instead of right-click.)

Slides:

• Slide 1
• Slide 2
• Slide 3
• Slide 4
• Slide 5
• Slide 6

(Slides 1-5 referenced beginning at 6 minutes 30 seconds. Slide 6 referenced at 10 minutes 10 seconds.)

István Mészáros: Marx and the Credit Crunch

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

István Mészáros: First of all, I would like to be fair to Gordon Brown. Our friend mentioned here that he promised to abolish boom and bust. And we must concede he managed to keep half of his promise. He abolished boom, but not bust. And there's compensation. We get the second half of it in great abundance. That is what we are talking about today.

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István Mészáros left his native Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956. He is professor emeritus at the University of Sussex, where he held the Chair of Philosophy for fifteen years. Mészáros is author of Beyond Capital, Power of Ideology, The Work of Sartre, Marx's Theory of Alienation, and The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time. This lecture by Mészáros was delivered at Conway Hall in London on 21 October 2008. Video courtesy of NotTheBBC. The text above is a quotation of his lecture. Read the text he prepared for this lecture: "The Unfolding Crisis and the Relevance of Marx." Click here for a Portuguese translation: "A crise em desdobramento e a relevância de Marx."

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Original source: Monthly Review