It brings me joy to see so many new comments under this video. Pandemic usually has this radicalising factor to it. I’m so glad we’re all here to use this time to educate ourselves!
I am jobless at the moment, but got good brain food from this lecture, l wish l could have rewarded you with pancakes and scrambled eggs. It's the only thing l can afford now professor Hervey. Please keep on educating us. Keep safe
I'm with you saleh. I too have been jobless for a few years now. When you're out of work and over 40, it's impossible unless you have someone on the inside looking out for you. I'm now near 50 and it's for all intents and purposes impossible to find something more than wage-slavery. If you find anything at all.
This gentleman speaks gold. More people need to get off cable (FOX, CNN, MSNBC and all that garbage) and start investing more time into youtube videos like this. We have a gold mine here, but very few of us take advantage of it. Imagine if half of the population watched videos like this and thought deeply about them, we would literally be in the White House by now running our own country and distributing our resources into our own communities. Slavery has never ended.
As a black man, you're an honest man David Harvey. Keep up the good work! It's never too late to grow, gain knowledge and especially have social awareness
@@malcolmmarzo2461 no, not everyone is racist. That is a myth based on misrepresentations of what implicit bias actually is and proves. Racism in the USA is much different than your standard dictionary definition of racism.
Socialism or communism won’t work either. Why did people who lived under communist regimes starve ?In Russia people were eating each other because they didn’t have food. How is socialism or communism the solution when it’s suppose to benefit everyone and it ends up hurting everyone except the government.
@@briannag8682 The Soviet Union was not a communist state, just a socialist state newly reformed from the poor feudal state of Tsarist Russia. If the US becomes a socialist country one day, it will certainly not start as a poor country as the Soviet Union did.
Appreciate David sharing that he also hold implicit biases in terms of race like we all do (but more so for people who hold racially privileged identities). That's the first step in changing our mental conceptions which can lead to changing the system of oppression itself.
Class is just the undeniable realization and subsequent attempt at a conceptualization of hierarchical levels. You then employ the thankless hours, at an attempt at material analysis; an aspirational concept. Imagine our leaders as dog breeders that kept two breeds away from each other; the same fundamental reactionary fear of Lovecraft.
Only thing social security and medicare need is remove the income caps from earnings deductions. 10% of the population makes and has 90% of the money but only contributes less than 5% of the money paid in to the social programs.
Underwood: Could this be why I pay more income taxes on a little Social Security income than does Amazon? Or Wells Fargo? Or Walmart? Or Microsoft? And a long list of corporations?
Professor Harvey. I think a study/analysis of class and race in an often forgotten American subculture, would provide interesting results. The subculture I'm referring to is the American Military "Brat." Specifically, the sons and daughters of the career full time enlisted service members, who were born military brats and stayed a brats until adulthood.
Isn't there a legal obligation to send your kids to school? This seems like a government intervention. Or don't people use roads built by the government? Government is already involved in many aspects of our life. Universal healthcare is no brainer but it wouldn't benefit insurance companies .
ju ju: "The Great American Healthcare Scam" by David Belk, MD is a good way to understand how the insurance/pharma/hospital system works. It will give you an insight into why the sick care system is arcane, convoluted, and expensive - by design. New book available on Amazon.
"Universal healthcare" is a term liberal (non-progressive centrist) politicians came up with so that they could refrain from committing to Medicare for All without sounding like they would do nothing. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be "universal healthcare", it ended up not being so, but regardless it was designed to help health insurance companies.
Anyone who has to say "I'm not racist," most definitely is. Otherwise, they wouldn't have to say that. I don't say such things, because I don't think that anyone believes I am ... and I don't care if they do.
On your point about George Floyd's underlying conditions contributing to his own death, I agree it's a disgraceful attempt to blame the victim. Also there is a legal precedent around eggshell thin skull cases, which essentially says you take your victim ad you find him. That is, unknown or even known fragilities of your victim provide no defence against an assault.
The most important concession Harvey makes here is worth underscoring: 'the bringing together of race and class is the one thing the ruling class fears the most'. This is an insight that has long been underscored by African American activists and scholars, and recently by Michelle Alexander (2010) as well as by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016). It is also an insight shared by Mike Davis (1986; 2020) and Max Elbaum (2020). I wish Harvey had realized this earlier -- living in Baltimore should have offered adequate time for this realization. It seems to have taken Harvey a long time to underscore this insight -- it is hard to see this insight emerging anywhere in his works on reading Marx or reading anyone else for that matter. This insight that Harvey offers amounts to the claim that Class Politics is NOT a substitute for Race Politics. This is a welcome admission from a Marxist who has consistently privileged Class Politics over any other kind of politics, including of course Identity-based Race Politics. It may also be the reason why most people who are from Minority Groups do not read Harvey! In this video Harvey comes closer to admitting the terrible uneven realities of living and dying in the US or in the UK (the exemplary sites of Neoliberal spaces). Living and dying are not activities that are equally distributed for everybody. All bodies are NOT the same! Their destinies are different insofar as they are racialized differently! Acknowledging this opens the way, does it not, for a deeper class politics itself!
Capitalists excel at finding ways to profit from disaster. When it comes to protecting human beings, capitalists are absolutely abysmal. Extracting capital from human labor creates massive social and environmental harm. Capitalists cannot reduce this harm without lowering their profits and becoming less competitive. Susan Rosenthal--Rebel Minds
You know how you repair a group of people you’ve oppressed through poor health care, education, financial access, housing, and economic anguish? Reparations. Repair. Cut the check.
If only it WAS 'Capitalism'; it's open, unapologetic Fascism by ANY meaningful definition of that word. I don't actually remember Marx ever using the word Fascism, maybe that's why I never hear Western analysts using it, even though it's the only apt description/definition of what we see in front of eyes every day.
I highly recommend reading Daniel Guerin's book called "Fasism and big business." The book, written in the 1930s, is deadly accurate if juxtaposed with the United States post WW2 to present.
I think your analysis of why Black Americans have underlying conditions should be adjusted. Thses conditions are due to constant stress and threat, living in food deserts, widespread **environmental racism**... You suggest increased access to healthcare like M4A as solution, but that is not a cure or solution. Lack of wealth in a capitalist society is the root cause of most Black health issues, since healthcare is distributed spatially by wealth in the USA. Direct cash #Reparations to Black American Descendants of Slavery is the only RESPECTABLE way to address what is happening in the USA now. Yes, universal policies are needed but we need to save Black Americans from utter annihilation before we help everyone thrive. It's death here all day every day for Black people David, and it's seemingly inescapable. It always catches up. Unless the Marxist revolution is going down tomorrow, we need to talk how to immediately resolve the deep racial injustice baked into this society, the same injustice currently killing Black people with Coronavirus neglect at disturbing rates. You say you are for REPARATIONS, which makes me very happy! Please make a video directly addressing this please and give it your always refreshing lens. This is so important, and all people with platforms who don't oppose direct cash reparations need to vocally discuss this at this crucial moment for Black Americans. We need strong voices to lift this view up! It is not enough to change the economy. You will never see Black American have lives economically equal to white Americans without addressing extreme racial wealth inequality. Also, I don't think all white people are racist. I think it's best to discuss systemic racism in the US as White Supremacy to capture the concerns you touch on towards the end of your video. Interpersonal racism is certainly part of it, but white people shouldn't be automatically labeled racist just because they are white. I don't judge until someone has the opportunity to act in an anti-racist manner but decides not to...
Scalia's protestations about the liberty not to be insured is well taken. That is why the government should just spend on medicare and a public option. Scalia and the other court mummies would have to swallow that. Or is taxing and spending in violation of liberty?
Both medicare for all and public option are a tax and spend solutions. Police, firefighting, courts, foe example are accepted by all to be tax and spend solutions. What is the difference?
Please don't use double negatives. You are saying" I do not receive nothing from unemployment.." meaning "I do receive something from unemployment..." See?
Class, caste, race, gender, identity ... all intellectually useful in their own time and place, but all crippling mind games in the arena of politics. These ideas work themselves out according with the necessary and difficult disagreements of government. They are problems solved even when there is no real solution to governing justly. Binary systems and their "winner take all" doesn't work. No party in a two party system renders the wisdom of Solomon. Notions of ideological purity don't work. Actions and the noise and friction of being angry and dissatisfied work. A Congress that sits on its precious ass and is satisfied is silent, and an idiot. Nothing less than proportional representation, a bull pit rather than a pulpit, makes a government -- and corporate money, its grand theft of "free speech", together make this impossible.
Racism is as large an issue as you make it. Continue to make distinctions in race, and people will always find differences to hate each other for. Sooner or later we have to accept that none of us chose our skin color, none of us chose our ancestors. I do not oppress or deride others of different race, and I refuse to be blamed for things I actively refuse to do, and call out when i see them. I am not guilty of crimes I did not commit. And as far as saying I am 'touched' by the hateful society, sure: That touch just fills me with revulsion, which is why i'm not fucking racist. All humans are equal, and nothing can sway that fact. I refuse to be the hate that embodies humanity, and thats the only path to a society that doesn't treat each other differently based on race: acknowledge that all humans are equally valuable regardless of color, creed, or sex. anything else will leave room for intolerance and hate.
Perhaps i'm the aberration, a white man in the south who sees the oppression of so many on the basis of what fundamentally boils down to arbitrary-defined differences in genes and melatonin production. The way you solve any irrationality is to expose it as such, and the only way you do that for the irrationality of racism in my view is by exposing just how little difference there truly is.
Human beings are mammals. Complex mammals with cultures. Multiculturalism does not work (nor does it usually exist for those who promote it). Unfortunately, due to its unique history, America has to deal with this somehow, and, thanks to neo-liberalism, these same issues are now reproducing everywhere. A cohesive culture can comfortably accommodate any number of countercultures, but what it can't accommodate is a multitude of cultures (with their own countercultures) within the same physical space. The only sure product of such a society is an unhappy, divided people who can only be partially held together by consumerism or catastrophe. And the more you grease the identity politics pole, the more various groups will vie for power until their group dominates. Demanding that people "be nice" will not change anything, but only infuriate people more. Maybe it's time to go for a walk rather than pulling down another book.
why you are european and only talk about the united states? there is life beyond the united states, you know. makes me sick when i only listen to talk about the united states as if they are the only country in this planet
It brings me joy to see so many new comments under this video. Pandemic usually has this radicalising factor to it. I’m so glad we’re all here to use this time to educate ourselves!
I am jobless at the moment, but got good brain food from this lecture, l wish l could have rewarded you with pancakes and scrambled eggs. It's the only thing l can afford now professor Hervey. Please keep on educating us. Keep safe
Keep your head up! Have a good day :)
God bless you Saleh, stay strong and keep your faith strong.
They can try to destroy your flesh but they must NEVER get your spirit.
I'm with you saleh. I too have been jobless for a few years now. When you're out of work and over 40, it's impossible unless you have someone on the inside looking out for you. I'm now near 50 and it's for all intents and purposes impossible to find something more than wage-slavery. If you find anything at all.
@@whompbiscuits8930 Stay in there pal
This gentleman speaks gold. More people need to get off cable (FOX, CNN, MSNBC and all that garbage) and start investing more time into youtube videos like this. We have a gold mine here, but very few of us take advantage of it. Imagine if half of the population watched videos like this and thought deeply about them, we would literally be in the White House by now running our own country and distributing our resources into our own communities. Slavery has never ended.
You're good to listen to. Very few people speak sense, like you. Thank you, David
As a black man, you're an honest man David Harvey. Keep up the good work! It's never too late to grow, gain knowledge and especially have social awareness
Dap: Yes, people who tell me " I'm not a racist" strike me as either being a lier or a dummy. Everybody is a racist. It is just a matter of degree.
@@malcolmmarzo2461 no, not everyone is racist. That is a myth based on misrepresentations of what implicit bias actually is and proves. Racism in the USA is much different than your standard dictionary definition of racism.
Always on point, professor!
The liberal left's non-response to Krugman's piece typifies what Parenti called ABC leftism: anything-but-class.
From "Blackshirts & Reds."
My only issue with your comment is - Liberals aren't Left, they're Right-Wingers.
@@itzenormous so they do not want to pick up the gauntlet and deal with bailout aka theft? deafening silence.
great video, thank you professor
"Capitalism is not the solution; it is the problem." Good twist on Reagonite "...government is the problem." : -)
Socialism or communism won’t work either. Why did people who lived under communist regimes starve ?In Russia people were eating each other because they didn’t have food. How is socialism or communism the solution when it’s suppose to benefit everyone and it ends up hurting everyone except the government.
@@briannag8682 The Soviet Union was not a communist state, just a socialist state newly reformed from the poor feudal state of Tsarist Russia. If the US becomes a socialist country one day, it will certainly not start as a poor country as the Soviet Union did.
Appreciate David sharing that he also hold implicit biases in terms of race like we all do (but more so for people who hold racially privileged identities). That's the first step in changing our mental conceptions which can lead to changing the system of oppression itself.
This is the best episode of your series.
Class is just the undeniable realization and subsequent attempt at a conceptualization of hierarchical levels.
You then employ the thankless hours, at an attempt at material analysis; an aspirational concept.
Imagine our leaders as dog breeders that kept two breeds away from each other; the same fundamental reactionary fear of Lovecraft.
Only thing social security and medicare need is remove the income caps from earnings deductions. 10% of the population makes and has 90% of the money but only contributes less than 5% of the money paid in to the social programs.
Underwood: Could this be why I pay more income taxes on a little Social Security income than does Amazon? Or Wells Fargo? Or Walmart? Or Microsoft? And a long list of corporations?
Professor Harvey. I think a study/analysis of class and race in an often forgotten American subculture, would provide interesting results. The subculture I'm referring to is the American Military "Brat." Specifically, the sons and daughters of the career full time enlisted service members, who were born military brats and stayed a brats until adulthood.
Excellent.
More indispensable topical wisdom from my OG David H.
A wise English gentleman.
Remember, capital is not the solution to the problem, capital IS the problem
Black and White, Unite and Fight!
Isn't there a legal obligation to send your kids to school? This seems like a government intervention. Or don't people use roads built by the government? Government is already involved in many aspects of our life. Universal healthcare is no brainer but it wouldn't benefit insurance companies .
ju ju: "The Great American Healthcare Scam" by David Belk, MD is a good way to understand how the insurance/pharma/hospital system works. It will give you an insight into why the sick care system is arcane, convoluted, and expensive - by design. New book available on Amazon.
"Universal healthcare" is a term liberal (non-progressive centrist) politicians came up with so that they could refrain from committing to Medicare for All without sounding like they would do nothing. The Affordable Care Act was supposed to be "universal healthcare", it ended up not being so, but regardless it was designed to help health insurance companies.
Anyone who has to say "I'm not racist," most definitely is.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have to say that.
I don't say such things, because I don't think that anyone believes I am ... and I don't care if they do.
I'm petty sure that you're a racist and you should be ashamed of yourself for being one!
props, thanks
Thanks for your truth.
Thank you for the lecture 😊
Thank you Doc!
You're looking good! Thanks for the video!
On your point about George Floyd's underlying conditions contributing to his own death, I agree it's a disgraceful attempt to blame the victim. Also there is a legal precedent around eggshell thin skull cases, which essentially says you take your victim ad you find him. That is, unknown or even known fragilities of your victim provide no defence against an assault.
Good Job sir!
The most important concession Harvey makes here is worth underscoring: 'the bringing together of race and class is the one thing the ruling class fears the most'. This is an insight that has long been underscored by African American activists and scholars, and recently by Michelle Alexander (2010) as well as by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2016). It is also an insight shared by Mike Davis (1986; 2020) and Max Elbaum (2020). I wish Harvey had realized this earlier -- living in Baltimore should have offered adequate time for this realization.
It seems to have taken Harvey a long time to underscore this insight -- it is hard to see this insight emerging anywhere in his works on reading Marx or reading anyone else for that matter. This insight that Harvey offers amounts to the claim that Class Politics is NOT a substitute for Race Politics. This is a welcome admission from a Marxist who has consistently privileged Class Politics over any other kind of politics, including of course Identity-based Race Politics. It may also be the reason why most people who are from Minority Groups do not read Harvey!
In this video Harvey comes closer to admitting the terrible uneven realities of living and dying in the US or in the UK (the exemplary sites of Neoliberal spaces). Living and dying are not activities that are equally distributed for everybody. All bodies are NOT the same! Their destinies are different insofar as they are racialized differently! Acknowledging this opens the way, does it not, for a deeper class politics itself!
Fantastic
Diverting UA-cam algorithm
Capitalists excel at finding ways to profit from disaster.
When it comes to protecting human beings, capitalists are absolutely abysmal. Extracting capital from human labor creates massive social and environmental harm. Capitalists cannot reduce this harm without lowering their profits and becoming less competitive. Susan Rosenthal--Rebel Minds
You know how you repair a group of people you’ve oppressed through poor health care, education, financial access, housing, and economic anguish? Reparations. Repair. Cut the check.
Mark Evans no. #TheBlackAuthority #TheBlackChannel
#reparationsnow ✊🏾💯
If only it WAS 'Capitalism'; it's open, unapologetic Fascism by ANY meaningful definition of that word.
I don't actually remember Marx ever using the word Fascism, maybe that's why I never hear Western analysts using it, even though it's the only apt description/definition of what we see in front of eyes every day.
I highly recommend reading Daniel Guerin's book called "Fasism and big business." The book, written in the 1930s, is deadly accurate if juxtaposed with the United States post WW2 to present.
@@BreckoniousMaximus Thanx for the recommendation.
Hopefully, I can lay my hands on it on ebay.
Thanx again.
dear professor...please water your sad cactus in the background...he looks very wilted :(
Plant neglect and exploitation is a serious problem and must be addressed with all alacrity.
Very honest assessment
I think your analysis of why Black Americans have underlying conditions should be adjusted. Thses conditions are due to constant stress and threat, living in food deserts, widespread **environmental racism**... You suggest increased access to healthcare like M4A as solution, but that is not a cure or solution. Lack of wealth in a capitalist society is the root cause of most Black health issues, since healthcare is distributed spatially by wealth in the USA.
Direct cash #Reparations to Black American Descendants of Slavery is the only RESPECTABLE way to address what is happening in the USA now. Yes, universal policies are needed but we need to save Black Americans from utter annihilation before we help everyone thrive. It's death here all day every day for Black people David, and it's seemingly inescapable. It always catches up.
Unless the Marxist revolution is going down tomorrow, we need to talk how to immediately resolve the deep racial injustice baked into this society, the same injustice currently killing Black people with Coronavirus neglect at disturbing rates.
You say you are for REPARATIONS, which makes me very happy! Please make a video directly addressing this please and give it your always refreshing lens. This is so important, and all people with platforms who don't oppose direct cash reparations need to vocally discuss this at this crucial moment for Black Americans. We need strong voices to lift this view up!
It is not enough to change the economy. You will never see Black American have lives economically equal to white Americans without addressing extreme racial wealth inequality.
Also, I don't think all white people are racist. I think it's best to discuss systemic racism in the US as White Supremacy to capture the concerns you touch on towards the end of your video. Interpersonal racism is certainly part of it, but white people shouldn't be automatically labeled racist just because they are white. I don't judge until someone has the opportunity to act in an anti-racist manner but decides not to...
23:27 Sexism is part of this too.
Excellent. But more than that.
Anyone else ever notice he sounds exactly like Jared Harris?
Someone please help me with the Krugman article the prof is talking about in this video?
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/opinion/trump-george-floyd-police-brutality.html I am really surprised that Krugman actually said that
Scalia's protestations about the liberty not to be insured is well taken. That is why the government should just spend on medicare and a public option. Scalia and the other court mummies would have to swallow that. Or is taxing and spending in violation of liberty?
Both medicare for all and public option are a tax and spend solutions. Police, firefighting, courts, foe example are accepted by all to be tax and spend solutions. What is the difference?
Please do a follow up on race and class now tgar protest are largely over
I read das kapital w this fine fella. 🙏🏽❤️🤘🏽✊🏾#cunyGC baby 🤘🏽
I haven't received nothing from unemployment or from the stimulus scam
Please don't use double negatives. You are saying" I do not receive nothing from unemployment.." meaning "I do receive something from unemployment..." See?
I agree with Krugman with the proviso that the Democrats are probably even more culpable.
And hidden classicism
Class, caste, race, gender, identity ... all intellectually useful in their own time and place, but all crippling mind games in the arena of politics. These ideas work themselves out according with the necessary and difficult disagreements of government. They are problems solved even when there is no real solution to governing justly. Binary systems and their "winner take all" doesn't work. No party in a two party system renders the wisdom of Solomon. Notions of ideological purity don't work. Actions and the noise and friction of being angry and dissatisfied work. A Congress that sits on its precious ass and is satisfied is silent, and an idiot. Nothing less than proportional representation, a bull pit rather than a pulpit, makes a government -- and corporate money, its grand theft of "free speech", together make this impossible.
Racism is as large an issue as you make it. Continue to make distinctions in race, and people will always find differences to hate each other for. Sooner or later we have to accept that none of us chose our skin color, none of us chose our ancestors. I do not oppress or deride others of different race, and I refuse to be blamed for things I actively refuse to do, and call out when i see them. I am not guilty of crimes I did not commit. And as far as saying I am 'touched' by the hateful society, sure: That touch just fills me with revulsion, which is why i'm not fucking racist. All humans are equal, and nothing can sway that fact. I refuse to be the hate that embodies humanity, and thats the only path to a society that doesn't treat each other differently based on race: acknowledge that all humans are equally valuable regardless of color, creed, or sex. anything else will leave room for intolerance and hate.
Perhaps i'm the aberration, a white man in the south who sees the oppression of so many on the basis of what fundamentally boils down to arbitrary-defined differences in genes and melatonin production. The way you solve any irrationality is to expose it as such, and the only way you do that for the irrationality of racism in my view is by exposing just how little difference there truly is.
Only then can we address the root cause of all hate: Ignorance. it takes the willful ignorance of many to breed the hate of the few.
Is this Man sober?
Human beings are mammals. Complex mammals with cultures. Multiculturalism does not work (nor does it usually exist for those who promote it). Unfortunately, due to its unique history, America has to deal with this somehow, and, thanks to neo-liberalism, these same issues are now reproducing everywhere. A cohesive culture can comfortably accommodate any number of countercultures, but what it can't accommodate is a multitude of cultures (with their own countercultures) within the same physical space. The only sure product of such a society is an unhappy, divided people who can only be partially held together by consumerism or catastrophe. And the more you grease the identity politics pole, the more various groups will vie for power until their group dominates. Demanding that people "be nice" will not change anything, but only infuriate people more. Maybe it's time to go for a walk rather than pulling down another book.
why you are european and only talk about the united states? there is life beyond the united states, you know. makes me sick when i only listen to talk about the united states as if they are the only country in this planet
It is the world's capitalist/imperialist hegemon though, and that's why we tend to talk about it so much.
venezuela 100 million
LARRY KRUGMAN IS A NEOLIBERAL
HIS perspective of Trump is grossly inaccurate....
Is BLM putting race and class together, if so, how?
yes, you notice there more white fighting than blacks
Are you suggesting that their fighting is self-evidence of class consciousness? Who, what, and why that they fighting?
Correction: what is the who, what, and why of their fighting?