[Marxism] Peak Oil

["Joseph Callahan" <JOEANDCAROLINE@xxxxxxx>]

    I know peak oil has been discussed previously on the list and that 
interested me to attend a presentation by Prof. Richard Heinberg, and read his 
book, "The Party's Over - Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies."  He 
makes a convincing case that world oil production is about to peak probably 
within a few years, leading to oil price spikes.  Indeed we already see demand 
pushing the price over $60 a barrel.
     I think this will almost certainly lead to a capitalist economic collapse 
on the order of the 1930's with the only capitalist "solution" being more oil 
wars and probably a rightist dictatorship of some kind.  What do other people 
think about this? 
    To me it's ominous, because there is little in the way of working class 
revolutionary leadership in the world.  The one exception would be Cuba - and 
maybe Venezuela and other countries in South America can find their way forward 
to socialism.
    For sure here in the U.S. workers are going to need some examples to help 
change their outlook.  Currently, only handfuls of workers in the U.S. have any 
idea that there is any alternative to capitalism and imperialism.
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