# Quote — David Harvey, The Limits to Capital

> The inner logic that governs the laws of motion of capitalism is cold, ruthless and inexorable, responsive only to the law of value. Yet value is a social relation, a product of a particular historical process. Human beings were organizers, creators and participants in that history. We have, Marx asserts, built a vast social enterprise which dominates us, delimits our freedoms and ultimately visits upon us the worst forms of degradation.

- Author: [David Harvey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey.md)
- Book: [The Limits to Capital](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital.md)
- Page: 203
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/the-inner-logic

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> The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.

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> There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

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> Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

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