David Harvey Quotes
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
Harvey, David. The Limits to Capital. Basil Blackwell, 1982, p. 331.
Statements like this caused some to believe him a Marxist, but see his quotation on Karl Marx -- {603061}.
While Turgot was right about so much, this was one of his big errors—the assumption that land was fundamental to and necessary for, wealth. In many countries it is still true, but of the recent billionaires like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and most others, they own very little land. In the United States and Canada, there are large tracts of land that few or no one will buy and a cast majority of people do not make their living from land.
Ironically, Fitzhugh who detested socialism, held this basic socialist principle. His solution however, was that the profits were necessary for society, and therefore slavery was the solution for Blacks AND whites.
Karl Marx had argued that all profit and income from capital is exploitation. Aftalion rebutted Marks as this quotation illustrates.
David W. Harvey FBA is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.
