Re: [A-List] Main Contradictions behind War on Iraq

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

> The long-run interests of the capitalist system require the weaning from
capitalist dependence on oil. ... The USA must therefore strengthen rather
than weaken the world wide reliance on oil.  In other words, it is leading
> the world capitalist system down a blind alley which will result in
serious upheavals when the oil is used up.  This
> too undermines the legitimacy of the USA as a world leader.
>
> (This is in contradiction to Mark Jones's basic theory that capitalism as
a system is by necessity based on oil.  If the
> above analysis is right, capitalism as a system can do without oil; but
the US cannot maintain its hegemony without
> oil.)

It may be in contradiction to the thesis that capitalism is necessarily
'dependent' on oil, but I still can not get past the basic subject of
matter/energy.  How can anyone historically or geologically extricate
fossil fuel from really existing capitalist development?