Prof Harvey uses the examples of the financial crash of 2008 and our modern housing crisis as examples of the ways abstract rules of capital control our economy and our lives.
"At some point or other, we have to address the way in which capital is functioning as a global system right now and the rules by which it is governing. And it is the abstract rules of motion to which we are forced to adapt, and the only way that they can be dealt with is by complete agreement that this system is no longer functional in relationship to environmental questions, social provision distribution of wealth, and the like." - Prof Harvey
This is a clip from [S3 E20] "The Primary Abstractions of Capital"
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