Hummers

[Charles Brown <BrownBingb@xxxxxxx>]

From: "lvnadal" <lvnadal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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I try to practice heresy as much as possible and never criticize
others for what I enjoy doing myself.  Oil is indeed finite.  The
question is, is its finiteness determining the current actions of the
bourgeois order.  I suggest it is not.  I think if we examine rates of
capital formation and rates of return on investment we will get a
better, more comprehensive, more revolutionary analysis of the
situation.

^^^^^ CB: Consider the conquest of the American continent and all its
natural resources. Is the pace and pattern of that bourgeois project
explained or understood only or even especially by closely examining
the rates of capital formation and rates of return on investment of
the period ?  Or was important that and did the bourgeois recognize
that the material underpinning for their whole economic regime was
enhanced by controlling that territory as a colony ? Surely a
"yes-yes" answer to the second question(s) has some validity.
Similarly, understanding the bourgeois motive to control of Iraq and
the region around it as a new form of colony is just as Marxist and
revolutionary as examining the short term rates of capital formation
and rates of return on investment.