RE: [A-List] LRNA and energy

["Mark Jones" <markjones011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan, I can't find the url for the LRNA, what is it about?

Mark

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> Hi Melvin.
>
> I mean no disrespect for the LRNA.  In fact, I know Jerome Scott, Michelle
> Tingling-Clemmons, and Walda Katz-Fishman, and have the greatest respect
> for the work each of them does.  What I am saying is there are assertions
> in this document that have not taken into account the rudiments of oil...
> which is not just a commodity.  The US pays around $250 a barrel (by some
> accounts) for the stuff, but $220 of that is disguised as "defense"
> spending or taken as imperial tribute in the form of interest from the
> global south.  It underwrites dollar hegemony, which in
> conjunction with US
> military power, is the very basis of US imperialism.  An important Marxist
> analysis of oil would begin with reviewing "rent," which describes, in
> part, the relationship between the US and Saudi, for example.  But even
> more basic, and this is where the left often substitutes anachronistic
> interpretations for doing their homework, are the material
> realities of oil
> that form the basis for the social relations of oil.  A good place to look
> over an outline of this material reality is at
> http://www.hubbertpeak.com/campbell/commons.htm
>
> Stay well.
>
> Stan
>
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