Harvey specifies seven “moments” within capitalism, where social change arises:

a) technological and organizational forms of production, exchange and consumption
b) relations to nature
c) social relations between people
d) mental conceptions of the world, embracing knowledges and cultural understandings and beliefs
e) labor processes and production of specific goods, geographies, services or affects
f ) institutional, legal and governmental arrangements
g) the conduct of daily life that underpins social reproduction.

OK. Take 1. Random mid evening thoughts. More questions than answers on day one.

1) The acceptance is that economic relations, and the social relations that arise from them, can be fitted in these 7 categories. Possibly true, but they are pretty all embracing - these are not unique to capitalism, but can be applied to all historical systems of organisation, post hunter gatherer. What makes capitalism (or 21st century post credit crunch capitalism) different? - Is more detail needed, or does there need to be a more structured hierarchy?

2) What is the primary dynamic of transition, if such a thing can occur? Is it vanguardism - seizing the commanding economic and cultural heights? AKA ‘The Leninist Solution’, or is it bottom up, economic and social organisation that develops and promotes alternatives to the capitalist model AKA ‘The Anarcho-Syndicalist Solution’? Or, is it a mixture?

Gotta admit, You’ve got me thinking… And that’s always good…