The above title is part of an interview with the geographer David Harvey translated into Portuguese

"The importance of imagination post-capitalist" by David Harvey
The above title is part of an interview with the geographer David Harvey translated into Portuguese houzz and published by the website "In Other Words". Check out. The italics are the responses of the blog and highlight some points that I found most relevant to a debate that is known beforehand complex to very unrealistic and utopian, but need to be thought of: David Harvey delves into the study of the contradictions of the system and seeks alternatives : decommodification, common property, basic permanent income, gratuities ... Interview with Ronan Burtenshaw and Aubrey Robinson * | Translation Vila Vudu Next month, there are five years since Lehman Brothers were the protagonists of the largest case of bank failure in U.S. history. The collapse signaled the beginning of the Great Depression - the more substantial crisis of world capitalism since the 2nd World War. How to understand the fundamentals of this system houzz in crisis now? And, with the system in the war against houzz the working class under the guise of "austerity" as to imagine a world after that? Few thinkers have generated most influential answers to these questions that the Marxist geographer David Harvey. Here, in a recent interview, he talks to Ronan Burtenshaw and Aubrey Robinson about these problems. You are now working on a new book, The Seventeen Contradictions of Capitalism [17 The contradictions of capitalism]. Why focus on these contradictions? Harvey: The analysis of capitalism suggests that they are significant and fundamental contradictions. Periodically these contradictions out of control and generate a crisis. We just passed a crisis and I think it's important to ask contradictions led us to the crisis? How can we analyze the crisis in terms of contradictions? One of the great sayings of Marx was that a crisis is always the result of underlying contradictions. Therefore, we have to deal with themselves, not with the results houzz of them. One of the contradictions houzz you engage in is that between use value and exchange value of a commodity. Why this contradiction is so fundamental to capitalism and why you use the house to illustrate it? Harvey: We need to start by understanding that all commodities have a use value and an exchange value. If you have a steak, use value is that I can eat it, and the exchange value is how much I have to pay to eat it. The villa is very interesting, in that sense, because you can understand how to use value it provides shelter, privacy, a world of emotional relationships between people, a huge list of things for which we use the house. At one time, each built their own house and the house had no exchange value. Then, from the 18th century houzz onwards, appears to build houses for speculation - Georgian townhouses were constructed [reign of King George in England] to be sold. And the houses became exchange values to consumers, such as savings. houzz If I buy a house and pay the mortgage, I have just the home owner. I have one as well, a heritage. Thus generates a policy curious - "not in my backyard", "I do not want to have people next door that did not look like me." And begins to segregation in housing markets, because people want to protect the exchange value of their property. Then, about 30 years ago, people began using the house as a way to gain from speculation. You could buy a house and "moving on" - buying a house for 200,000, after a year get 250 grand for it. You get 50 thousand, why not? The exchange value became dominant. And so it comes to speculative boom. In 2000, after the collapse of global stock markets, surplus capital began to flow into the house. It is an interesting type of market. You buy a house, the price of housing rises you say "home prices houzz are going up, I have to buy a house", but before you buy another. It generates a real estate bubble. People are trapped in the bubble and the bubble bursts. Then suddenly, many people find they can no longer take advantage of the use value of the house, because the system houzz of exchange houzz value destroyed houzz value in use. (From the blog, very interesting explanation) houzz And the question arises: is a good idea to allow the use value of the house, which is crucial for the people, is run by a crazy system of exchange value? The problem arises not only in housing but in things like education and health care. In several of these fields, we released the dynamics houzz of exchange value, under the theory that he will ensure the use value, but what you see often is that it blows up the value in use and people end up without receiving good attention to health, good education and good housing. So it seems to me so important to pay attention to the difference between use value and exchange value. Another contradiction that you comment involves a switch