There is one thing you can do: Organize small mutual aid groups that can prepare for conditions that will resemble the great depression. If you are all on your own you could be in real trouble. Myself and about 7 of my neighbors have already begun. Start today.
@thepeopleshistoryofus
3 жыл бұрын
@Siuz Thanks for asking. I can't type it all out on my phone, so I will start you off with a link to a KZitem video. Check this out and go to this channel. Under "Play Lists" you will find a list of videos under community organizing. This will get you started. 👍🙄 kzitem.info/news/bejne/yKhntY6bgoWif6A
@destroctiveblade843
4 жыл бұрын
Can we all appreciate opening the video by the international
@elizabetholbert6949
4 жыл бұрын
Aaaaaand the red guayabera shirt. :)
@calibfurrytour8124
4 жыл бұрын
David has my vote of confidence. His twine-fix for his glasses tells me he is the kinda guy I want on my team.
@HxH2011DRA
4 жыл бұрын
It's back!
@richardfinlayson1524
4 жыл бұрын
thanks dave
@whompbiscuits8930
4 жыл бұрын
I'm with Prof. Harvey, I too don't know what the solution is. Doesn't negate the accuracy of correctly identifying the problem. Sometimes the problems are so large, so deeply rooted that there is no solution. Sometimes one doesn't exist. IMO America is terminal. Only quibble I have is that we won't be in a disaster come January; we're in a disaster *now*. And as Matt Stoller and others have correctly said, we're in this disaster not due to the nature of the pandemic. Rather, we're in this mess solely because of poor policy choices deliberately made by blatantly corrupt politicians at every level of government. Forget outright good leadership; if we just had decent leadership, we wouldn't be enduring such disaster. It wouldn't be ideal, but it wouldn't be near this bad.
@Achrononmaster
4 жыл бұрын
You are the solution, or to be more accurate, mass social movements. Look back over all known history... there is no other solution. Listen to Howard Zinn for example: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1Gyv0214b3tkiII kzitem.info/news/bejne/1Gyv0214b3tkiII
@Hillbilly80808
4 жыл бұрын
I’m saddened that only 2k people have seen this.
@Achrononmaster
4 жыл бұрын
A common complaint on leftie youtube. But it is over-stated. The energized folks who take all this to heart talk to their normie friends, and word gets out. It is how social movements have always formed, repeatedly for thousands of years before youtube came along, and only social movements make true change, politicians are followers, not leaders. So do not be too sad. Listen to Zinn for instance: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1Gyv0214b3tkiII
@zofiajaneczek184
4 жыл бұрын
Brandon Gilbreath the rest are too busy doing Tik Tok and posting on IG to even care.
@augurcybernaut4785
3 жыл бұрын
I’m glad..... these guys are garbage. They are forever complaining that your wife is fat. Yet when it comes to their own wife it silence. Wolff being the worst. At least this one has some integrity to admit that he doesn’t know how to politic in this environment. At least he’s able to see capitalism for what it is.... not so much a cancer as much as it is cholesterol if a sort. Meaning you need a bit of it in the right form and right time to be healthy.
@Hillbilly80808
3 жыл бұрын
@@augurcybernaut4785 I agree with you. Capitalism on its face isn't bad, its just our version of capitalism that sucks. We need to change that.
@augurcybernaut4785
3 жыл бұрын
Brandon Gilbreath strong potential for the Same thing will happen with our version of socialism. So although I have socialist proclivity- I’m enraged that all these guys do is throw rocks at capitalism. Instead of honestly assessing where attempts to implement socialism went wrong in the past and how would we avoid making the same/similar mistakes. Nope! Stub your toe...? Blame capitalism. Dandruff...? Blame capitalism! Wife left ya? Capitalism. On the rare occasion they do look back they will claim well Lenin didn’t stick to what Marx engles said.... or Xi or etc didn’t stick to Marx... as if these prior attempts simply weren’t committed enough...!! And you’re gonna do better how....? Nope here’s another prof Wolff talk on the decline of capitalism. Smh. Any who I’m getting worked up! Hahahahaha.
@syndicat4847
4 жыл бұрын
Self-organization, mutual aid and direct action is what is needed to save us from a new Dark Ages, and extinction.
@elufo2321
4 жыл бұрын
the lying is not the problem. The lack accessible to thruth is the real problem. The control of the corporate media and information is the what needs to be confronted.
@illegalsmirf
4 жыл бұрын
Great to see David again
@itzenormous
4 жыл бұрын
What we the People, need, is elevated mass collective class consciousness. We need to somehow reach the widespread working masses and bring them onboard. We need them to understand revolutionary theory and understand that we have to push forward, together, with a common collective goal in mind. We need a vanguard party, of the working people, to lead the way. And we can not underestimate the potency of bourgeois reaction, as well as the Fascist masses that they will stir up, recruit, and send our way.
@john-lenin
4 жыл бұрын
Modern Monetary Theory is the most important critique of Capitalism since Marx.
@philmessina476
4 жыл бұрын
Perhaps. I just picked up Dr. Stephanie Kelton's new book, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy. Dr. Kelton, Dr. L. Randall Wray, Dr. Henry (who trained Dr. Kelton), et al. at UMKC were my econ professors circa 2013-2015. Folks should check out NewEconomicPerspectives.org, Dr. Kelton's MMT blog, too. Also check out Dr. Mathew Forstater's Job Guarantee book.
@john-lenin
4 жыл бұрын
Phil Messina The problem is that she cannot explain it in a way normal people can understand it.
@Achrononmaster
4 жыл бұрын
I'd agree as far as the critique is coming from those progressives with an understanding of MMT, but MMT itself is non-ideological, it is just a description of what is possible. But that is incredibly important, because knowing truthfully what is possible within a monetary system is what can give leftist emancipation ideology it's real teeth. Without the lens of MMT leftist politics is impotent, totally impotent, since it then only has neoliberal/post-keynesian economics to fall back on, which equates to near zero progress --- since if all your public purpose spending is to be "tax funded" you are going to get nowhere, or just go through the same old crippling business cycles.
@Achrononmaster
4 жыл бұрын
@@philmessina476 Good plug. Pavlina Tcherneva's book _The Job Guarantee_ is a recent popular reading improvement over Forstater.
@hannaalmacy
4 жыл бұрын
Prof. Harvey is anti-capitalist, but he is not an ideologue. That's why I enjoy his talks so much.
@JenniferDelgaty
4 жыл бұрын
So true, why go back to work to an office when you have everything you need at home: internet, phone, computer, conference calls, lunch space...just missing the 2-3hr commute time! Restaurants are a dying business, even schools are suspect...why go back to an inefficient system where a teacher has to deal with 30+ students and only 5 actually get the attention they need to thrive. Time to rethink about what life you want to live, be the change you want to see in the world.
@spacepope69
4 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately you have confirmed what I suspected about the near future, Mr. Harvey. Thanks for being honest about things. We (humanity) are going to suffer for what I hope is a short time, although many of us have been suffering since 2008. There is going to be radical change and disruption across the planet and like that psychic told me long ago, I am going to die in a foreign country even though I will not have left north america
@john-lenin
4 жыл бұрын
Modern Monetary Theory redefines both the calculations and political ramifications of wealth redistribution.
@Achrononmaster
4 жыл бұрын
Right on brother. MMT also describes _what is possible_ without risking price instability or debt-deflation recessions. But it requires a mass social movement to promote such thinking to prominence in leftie circles.
@dinnerwithfranklin2451
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Professor
@hydratanksamari
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@igorbosc5259
4 жыл бұрын
There are anti-capitalist solutions to hunger. It's called social security for food. Instead of every one purchasing food for a fixed amount of say 150 dollars a month, people in a specific locality can pool the money into a mutualized fund. They can then collectively decide what type of food should be prioritized and how to distribute it among contributors. Such a system can be further strengthened by enabling use of food stamps and such. A stable income could be offered to small farmers who produce needed products. This would break the stranglehold of big box stores and other intermediaries, get rid of junk food problems and revitalize the local economy.
@igorbosc5259
4 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/rad5moeQjph7bKQ
@Dhumm81
4 жыл бұрын
David Harvey is the only reason I remain Subscribed to this Channel. I don't always fully understand or agree with all of his analysis, but I've never noticed him distorting facts to drive a narrative in a way that was obvious, intentional, and self-serving. I'm honestly surprised he even associates with certain other individuals on this Channel.
@OH-pc5jx
4 жыл бұрын
Not the most relevant thing but Prof. Harvey's house looks absolutely charming
@bloanta
4 жыл бұрын
Prof please stay confined u are un New York, I would like you to do something about competition the coercive laws because thats the main reason american companies migrated to China, thankyou!!!
@jcllily
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the insights! Stay safe! 谢谢!
@Achrononmaster
4 жыл бұрын
Harvey can be a bit ignorant on monetary matters, so frustrating. Sure a redistributive tax might be good. But to fund welfare payments or a massive job guarantee program does not require taxation. Tax works the other way around entirely: FIRST government spends, and then LATER taxes some of that spending back. The residual is called the government deficit. So even before you can get tax on superwealth passed into Law, you can start by injecting base money at the bottom through, (1) a Basic Income Guarantee (B.I.G.) (only for those unable to work) and (2) a Job Guarantee for those who con contribute and help out. And folks! There is a lot of work we need to do to help each other out right now! We have severe labour shortages! (Meaning a UBI hand-out is insane right now --- we need a lot higher pay cheques than UBI, it needs to go at the base only, not the top end, and it has to be legislation that can get passed through the Houses, and it should be motivating civic duty, public purpose work, but at the will of the worker, so community organized, not government dictated. The JG is such a thing, it is not workfare, it takes workers as they are, where they are, and allows folks to do what work they please, provided only it serves some public purpose., e.g, parenting, community gardening, etc. And for you econ nerds, just NOTE that any inflationary effects of B.I.G. will be quite good and healthy, provided the BIG & JG wage tracks cost-of-living inflation in small increments so the effects are one-off and time limited in duration, which allows the tax return lag effects to stabilize the inflation. The reason moderate controlled inflation using such fiscal policy will be a very good thing is that inflation acts just like a tax on hoarded wealth and a pressure relief on the burden of past debt.. A nation with fiat currency can always sustain such monetary inflation indefinitely if it is politically tolerable, because it is not supply-shock hyperinflation, it is totally controlled by discretionary fiscal policy --- demand-pull inflation, not cost-push hyperinflation. Injecting base money at the bottom where is is actually needed with (1) BIG and (2) a JG, causes one-off jumps in the price level when the BIG/JG wage is stepped up, otherwise any moderate fixed inflation rate is a very good thing in between such one-off jumps, it ends up being functionally equivalent to a tax on wealth. (This is one thing the Austrian School econs get right, inflation is a form of indirect tax on wealth. One of the few things they actually get right. But instead of regarding it as a bad thing, we should regard it under present socioeconomc climate as a good thing. It helps avoid the battle, which you will probably lose, of trying to get an explicit tax on wealth.) If you want to know _"where the money comes from"_ for the B.I.G. and the JG, I suggest you read Stephanie Kelton's _The Deficit Myth_ or browse Randall Wray's excellent MMT Primer: neweconomicperspectives.org/modern-monetary-theory-primer.html or if you like conciseness and efficiency of expression Mosler's 7DIF: www.moslereconomics.com/wp-content/powerpoints/7DIF.pdf Bottom line is, until we reach _real_ resource limits (full employment) the money can come from Treasury/Fed marking up the bank accounts for the B.I.G. and JG wage recipients. No tax required, no borrowing required. If inflation gets too intolerable for the Austrians and Neolibs then you can tax money out of the economy by taxing the rentiers and others who get unjustified unearned incomes (so not pensioners obviously). That should shut them up. If the super rich are unwilling to reduce their claims on productive output to quell inflation, they have zero right to expect the poor and lower income sector to do so by suffering unemployment.
@theresamcmullen4841
4 жыл бұрын
This country is going to die on that consequence.
@LucreDenouncer
4 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you like the idea of the book?
@matthewdeepblue
3 жыл бұрын
With respect I think part of the reason you don't know how to wage politics during this time... It's because of your age... I honestly have never seen politics to waged more in Kentucky. It's on the street, it's over the airways, it's in the breath and the blood.
@got2kittys
3 жыл бұрын
How do you help, without Commerce?
@leighlong7005
4 жыл бұрын
This is real scary concerning information, in a matter of fact dialog. Is it time to start hoarding food???
@scotthullinger9955
4 жыл бұрын
The words "anti-capitalist" and "democracy" should never be uttered together in the same sentence. Two different fish in two very different ponds. The only words which belong together are "anti-capitalist" and "Socialism." Either that, or else "Communism." True democracy enables capitalism - Thank God!
@maciejzdaniuk1914
4 жыл бұрын
Have you noticed a thing that is the climate catastrophy, Davi Harvey?
@twiexcursori
4 жыл бұрын
o/
@dariusrad8058
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe you should do the same as what Leon Trotsky did in Russia or did Fidel Castro in Cuba. At least you can try, nothing to loss except that "not knowing" what to do stance
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