Re: [Marxism] Re: Peak oil and politics

["rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And exactly how does any of this prove an approaching peak?  Same thing
happened in the 1970s, re commodity prices and the impact of OPEC.

Overproduction, declining rates of return can account for these same
things and more, and can lead us into some analysis of class struggle--
and the prospects in fact of victory and defeat of that struggle, and
even the restoration of capitalism with increased consumption of
petroleum after a recession-- which is definitely not supposed to happen
if this is the peak of peaks.

I think the inadequacy of the peak theory, the blind alley it takes us
into is clearly displaced when Jon states:   "In the face of fuels
scarcity, the question for marxists is what to
 propose. Higher taxes? Rationing?"

There it is, the world according to our peak theorists is coming to an
end, and all we can muster is higher taxes or rationing.

Or maybe retreating to wood stoves.  Biomass, ah yeah, that's a real
ecologically sound future-- burning biomass.

rr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Flanders" <jonflanders@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:54 AM
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