David Harvey reveals actors, tools for a fair world

One of most-cited social scientists of our time, Professor David Harvey speaks about the role of the reader, writer and everyday people in a social resistanceIncreasing social inequality, wars and migration all call for a clear policy response and an urgent reply to the question how can civil society fight back. 

Professor David Harvey's intellectual production over 50 years gives a critical account for the ills of capitalism, social justice and invites his readers to think on the possibility of a fair civilization.

In an interview about the role of the reader, writer and everyday people in a social resistance, he reveals the actors and the tools for a humane, fair world. 

"Rebel Cities," "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," "Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism," your books all share a common ground; you present a reading to the historical aims of the capital, reveal the mechanism of the neoliberal strategy and how it reshapes whole culture and the city just to direct the capital flow into one single class. Reasons for the unhappiness of the rest are thus revealed. Yet, in these books you always give a glimpse of hope by suggesting a contra-hegemonic line where the progressive forces of the city, the left, civil society and many are also positioned. Today if a contra hegemonic resistance is a wish, who and what might be the actors? 

We are all actors whether we like it or not. The question is how and why we direct our actions to particular ends as opposed to simply acting in a way that confirms and reproduces an existing reality (including its dominant social relations and its metabolic relations to nature)?  This requires an analysis of what is wrong with the existing system. That system is today powered...

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