David Harvey

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

A work of this sort admits no conclusion.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

" workers then have a strong stake in the preservation of the very system that exploits them because the destruction of that system entails the destruction of their savings."

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.