Novara Media Do Your Own Research: What the World’s Most Famous Marxist Really Thinks of Zohran Mamdani w/ David Harvey
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May 9, 2026 
David Harvey, Marxist geographer and author of The Story of Capital, offers decades of teaching and research in plain terms. He talks about capital as a moving process, city politics and housing as arenas of struggle. He weighs mayoral strategies, urban infrastructure, surplus use, and how AI and finance reshape power.
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Keep Totality But Fight Where People Feel It
- Always keep the totality in view but focus struggles on the contesting moment that mobilizes people now.
- Harvey uses housing, credit-card debt and wage repression as targeted fronts that build broader class consciousness.
Debt Shapes Political Consciousness
- Consumption mechanisms like credit-card debt are part of capital's extraction separate from the labor process.
- Harvey highlights debt as a political lever shaping worker priorities toward consumer grievances.
Mayors Should Mediate Labor Disputes
- Use mayoral power to mediate labor disputes and intervene in wage struggles.
- Harvey suggests Mamdani can actively support labor actions rather than only addressing consumption issues.
