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Under the Skin.

Hello, you're listening Under the Skin with me, Russell Brand. And I'm talking to Professor David...

I'm assuming, Professor. Yeah, you can drop the professor, I don't like it very much.

Oh, Professor, I've come up in the world. Professor David Harvey, I'll be talking to...

As if we was equals... David Harvey, Professor David Harvey, is the world's leading Marxist thinker.

Oh, no. That's what it says. So I'm just reading the script, mate.

I'm just reading the script. He writes extensively on Marxist geography, social justice,

and the political economy, and is the author of over 20 books, including 17 contradictions

in the end of capitalism, rebel cities, and the new imperialism.

He is a distinguished professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York,

and has been teaching Marx's capital for almost 40 years.

His new book is titled Marx Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason.

Professor David Harvey, thank you very much for being our guest on Under the Skin.

Thank you.

You'll hear somewhat to promote this book, Marx Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason.

Why have you written this book now?

Well, I've been involved over several years now, what I call the Marx Project,

which is to try to explain to people what it was that Marx was talking about,

and to do it in terms which are simple without being simplistic,

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