David Harvey: The Working Class Today

David Harvey talks about how to convieve of and organize the working class in contemporary circumstances. Different from its classical, factory-based, guise, the working class today is fragmented and scattered thouought the urban setting. In this context, Harvey emphasizes the importance of thinking up new territorial strategies for class struggle - a terrain more explored by the anarquist tradition than the classical marxist one. He then, paraphazing Murray Bookchin, insists that the future of the left depends crucially on our capacity for putting together the best of marxism with the best of anarchism. A must see video.
The clip is an excerpt of the closing pannel of Boitempo's Rebel Cities International Seminar, that took place in São Paulo, Brazil in june 2015 and celebrated the publication of the brazillian edition of Professor Harvey's PARIS, CAPITAL OF MODERNITY (bit.ly/ParisHar....
A video recording of the full pannel is available online here: bit.ly/cidadesr...
#marxism #proletariat #anticapitalism

[@CezarViegas]

do caralho hein velinho!

[@luizaesteves3393]

Que homem

[@MDZ196]

Muito,muito bom!

[@mauricio1760]

ótima reflexão!

[@wagnerjr3230]

"Ele continua sempre jovem"

[@Left_it]

very good

[@profivanildoche5136]

A IMPORTÂNCIA DE ANDAR BEM ACOMPANHADO: O PSY MELHORA QUE É UMA MARAVILHA!!!! THANKS SO MUCH, MR. AND CAMRADE HARVEY!!!!

[@pedrohenriquedadaltdequeir4859]

Esse cara é foda

[@MrMartinnJ]

As much as I admire David Harvey for his scholarship and in particular his Reading Capital classes, I think he is seriously misguided in his hope for a reorganization of the working classes in the urban setting in order to achieve social change. First of all, the concept of working class is highly undertheorized - also by Marx himself: is it a social economic category or a subjective cultural one? At least the concept is very complex and paradoxical - this he himself admits. But also important and related to this is the 'real' situation: what do these people (which Harvey mentions in his example) as a group generally think in terms of solidarity and social change? Overall not much. For example in western Europe right now in the refugee discussion; it is the often members of the working class that support in elections right wing repressive xenophobic policies and it is often members of the working class that take to the street to fight the people that fled from war and misery. In order to reorganize the left needs to give up the dream of the working class, the factory and also that of the city, in my opinion, and propose a resistance along ecological lines - it is much more tangible for people than class politics and more unifying: everyone needs clean air and clean water. Besides it touches upon the most difficult problem today which is not production (it is easier to change circumstances) but consumption.

[@cabral1012]

a great ecosocialist perspective, but one thing don't exclude the other. We still have toorganize locally and regionally the working class. And this is a good strategy for a more organic organization

[@jucarioni]

Onde está a legenda? Tem que alterar o título do vídeo então! Pq não tem legenda!

[@TVBoitempo]

Oi Juliana! Para visualizar as legendas, basta ativá-las clicando na própria janela de exibição do RUclips. Se estiver acessando de um computador, o botão costuma ficar na parte inferior direita do tocador. Se estiver acessando do celular, o menu costuma ficar no canto superior direito (os três pontinhos que ficam lá).