David Harvey: The importance of municipal socialism to reclaim cities

David Harvey speaking at The Future is Public conference in Amsterdam.

David Harvey gives his take on capital in relation to current challenges in our lives.

We are living in a crucial moment. Cities are on the front lines of today’s most urgent challenges, including fighting climate change and rising inequality, as well as the need to support refugees and provide universal access to public services that are human rights including housing, drinking water and sanitation services, energy, health care and education. These global problems call for public solutions.

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00:00 Introduction
05:00 Start key note David Harvey
07:00 Capital today
10:00 Endless expansion: The money spiral
13:30 Profit and individual emancipation
17:20 Broken system
21:45 Compound interest and the global economy
27:30 Mass vs rate
33:00 The mass problem
40:30 To big to fail to monstrous to survive
48:10 A response by Amsterdam councillor Rutger Groot Wassink (Green Party)

Portrait photo attribution: Robert Crc, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons.