A Companion to Marx’s Capital

“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms…”

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx’s work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars.

Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring this depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx’s Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again.

“Harvey is a scholarly radical; his writing is free of journalistic clichés, full of facts and carefully thought-through ideas.” — Richard Sennett

Praise for The New Imperialism

“David Harvey is a social theorist known for a cool, analytical style born of interdisciplinary inquiry, coupled with a keen feeling for political significance.” — The Boston Phoenix

“Navigating effortlessly between history, economics, geography and politics, with persuasive argument and lucid prose, David Harvey places today’s headlines in context and makes sense of the early twenty-first-century maelstrom we’re all caught up in. His concept of accumulation by dispossession will go far. The New Imperialism is a truly useful book.” — Susan George

Praise for Limits to Capital

“A magisterial work.” — Fredric Jameson

David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism and, most recently, Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development.