Pawns of the Plutocrats

The Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA) has been sponsoring lectures for 250 years. But only recently have they been producing a series of brilliant animations of the lectures themselves, including this one illustrating a talk on the financial crisis by controversial anthropologist and geographer David Harvey.

The analysis is frankly Marxist. I’m inclined to think he’s right, though I don’t know how much of a Marxist you have to be to think, “Some people have far too much money and are doing insane shit with it.”

I couldn’t help but notice, though, that Harvey is a little short on solutions. “We’ve all got to think and talk about this” is a little lame as a finale, though I guess “We should all have a big world revolution” is unlikely to fly with much of his audience.