Re: oil and socialism

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:51 PM 11/16/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> Capitalism is supposed to have been integrally associated with the rise of
> modern technology, which is absolutely dependent on fossil fuels.  So, if
> modern technology depends on fossil fuels -- everyone but George Gilder
> and the like will agree with that -- that maybe you can say that
> capitalism depends on fossil fuels.

actually-existing capitalism depends heavily on fossil fuels, but does
capitalism in general? though capitalism is amazingly inflexible on issues
of preserving class privilege and dictatorship, it is also amazingly
flexible when  it comes to adapting to disaster (like that of the 1930s).

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine