In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane. View his full lecture at the RSA. Download a transcript of this video (pdf).
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Why call him a 'radical' sociologist, any intelligent person not part of the capitalist machine shares his views
I have found the entire RSAnimate videos to be entertaining and instructive. Being of the low attention-span generation, I can't quite sit through the full lectures but these are great. Any chance they could be made into podcasts on i-tunes? I would like to be able to download the available ones and be made aware of future animated lectures.
The theory is correct to a certain degree but what is left out in the equation is the instantaneous messaging of public media that capitalism feeds off of and believes as if it were biblical stone. The rapid change of media information causes in large part the immediate response mechanism of the public perspective. Y2K is a fine example of media testing their power in America and how based on minimum input by the British media is was not an issue in England.
The first step to stemming capitalism is stemming the media and what is put out to the listening ear by them. Their power has become so great that they feel they control the outcome and in fact do. Public forum was a Marxist platform. How do you incorporate that into today's world and make it hold throughout is the key to change.
Sociology... grownups yelling "it's not fair!"
Why won't this piece of shit load BEFORE I press play?