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Laws Of Motion Within Historical Context
- Marx frames political economy as historical but seeks law-like motions within that history.
- He treats production as the generality and distribution/exchange/consumption as contingent moments.
Unexpected Global Response To Lectures
- Harvey describes surprise at the global response to his Volume One lectures and the hunger for Marxist study.
- He found the experience humbling and evidence of a real thirst for new ideas.
Theory Predicts Tendencies, Not Events
- Harvey compares Marx’s political economy to fluid dynamics: useful for tendencies but not for exact prediction.
- Laws of motion guide understanding but cannot forecast specific events with certainty.