FRESH_ED: Do you think Marx would’ve been a good academic?
DAVID HARVEY: No! He’d been terrible. He wouldn’t have gotten tenure anywhere. First off, nobody would have known what discipline to put him in. I have a bit of that problem. I mean I come from Geography, but a lot of people think that I’m a sociologist or something else. But…so he doesn’t fit in easily into any discipline. Secondly, he didn’t complete much of his work. And I always used to have this little thing on my desk. He had a letter from his publisher that said, “Dear Herr Professor Marx: It’s come to our attention that we have not yet received your manuscript of Das Kapital. Would you please furnish it to us within six months or we’ll have to commission somebody else to write this work.”
FRESH_ED: Do you know if he met the deadline?
DAVID HARVEY: No, of course not.
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