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David Harvey, born on October 31, 1935, is a renowned British geographer, Marxist theorist, and social theorist. He has conducted extensive research in the field of geography, particularly on issues of capital accumulation, urban geography, and postmodern geography. Professor Harvey's work has had a profound impact on academic research and political movements worldwide.

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“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.”

Wealth Achievement

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“What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.”

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“We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.”

Capitalism Entrepreneur Competition Capitalist

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“Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society.”

Problem Culture Easy Special Unique Disappear Uniqueness

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“My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.”

Advice Environmental Inequality

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“People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have to give it a huge push if we want to see something different in our society. We need to create mechanisms and forms of organization which reflect the needs and wants of society as a whole, not just a privileged-oligarchic class of individuals.”

People Giving Different Moving Individual Wealth

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“Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal.”

Wells Done Goal Economic Achieve Needed Creating Argument China Russia Instance Elites Justification Theoretical Accumulation Restoring Neoliberalism

Book:A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Source: A Brief History of Neoliberalism

“The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.”

Order Social Space Common Notion Common Sense Time And Space Prescriptions Social Order Replicate

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“Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.”

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“All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.”

Certain Owners Portions Globes Monopoly Monopoly Power

Book:Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography

Source: Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography

“Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.”

World Social Aspect Relation Private Life Monetary

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“The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.”

Way Mean Use Used Certain Movement Products Metals Commodity Identical Precious Metal

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“The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.”

Hands Space Misery Accumulation Hand In Hand

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“Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.”

Fall Class Capitalism Surrender Cease Capitalist Accumulation

Book:The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism

Source: The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism

“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.”

Individual Cities Liberty Resources Access Urban Individual Liberty Urbanization

Book:Social Justice and the City

Source: Social Justice and the City

“The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.”

Want Humans Change Freedom Cities Rights Transformation Human Rights Arguing Neglected Anthropology Remakes Urbanization

Book:Social Justice and the City

Source: Social Justice and the City

“The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.”

Demand Reactions Upset Equilibrium Supply And Demand

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Born: October 31, 1935
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