I recommend a good book "The Logic of the World",
After reading it, it feels like standing on a new high platform to observe the world.
It won't tell you "what coin/which stock should you buy tomorrow",
But it will force you to think: the city I live in, the job position I work, and the choice of consumption every day are itself the product of the competition between politics and capital.
“The greatest talent of capital is that it can create a crisis and then profit from it in new ways.”
In an era of passive acceptance of narrative, thinking itself is a kind of resistance.
This is not accidental, but systematic design.
Behind the "seemingly unexpected" economic shocks, there is the re-allocation and re-depriving of space, resources and labor by capital.
The real estate bubble burst?
Financial crash?
Massive unemployment?
——These are never mistakes in the capital system, but the way it breathes.
This view is alarming.
In daily narratives, we are always instilled with the illusion that "crisis is caused by individual factors", and Harvey reminds us that crisis is the norm of capital and an inevitable within order.
Cities are not neutral geographical spaces
In Harvey's eyes, cities are far from being a simple gathering place for population, but a battlefield for capital appreciation. He wrote:
"Urban space is a field of capital self-proliferation and a trenches for the confrontation of domination and resistance."
Behind every skyscraper rising from the ground, every road being demolished and built, and every skyrocketing land prices, capital is reorganizing the spatial order.
Housing has become a bargaining chip for speculation; public resources have gradually become a privileged territory for a few people.
So, we gradually moved into the "mortgaged" city.
Harvey reminds us: when you see space, you will see power.
The first step to changing the world is to recognize its logic
Harvey is not a pessimist. Instead of stopping in the pleasure of criticism, he kept asking:
"If capital has the power to transform the world, why can't we?"
Recognizing how capital lays out the world means that we can also use another set of logic to counter-layout.
We can still become the creators of history, not the vassal of capital.
mutual encouragement!