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David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual

No understanding of Marxist theory is complete without the work of David Harvey.

Verso Books30 October 2025

David Harvey: Radical Marxist Intellectual

October 31st is David Harvey's 90th birthday. To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works. Be sure to check out David Harvey at 90, a Verso blog series with essays from David's friends and admirers.

For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. In addition, his work on the history and geography of capitalist development has transformed our understanding of neoliberalism and the spread of inequalities across the globe.

His works are essential to understanding Marx's Capital, and the carnage of capitalism.

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Watch: David Harvey talks to Verso Books. The radical intellectual discusses becoming a Marxist, and his latest work on Marx's Grundrisse, with his Verso editor Sebastian Budgen.

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  • The Limits to Capital
    Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his cla...
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  • Rebel Cities
    Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and politica...
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