Re: oil and what is to be done

Richard, I follow with interest your debates with Andy, Mine and others on
WSN. At the moment I'm not so much concerned with what is to be done as with
an earlier, more preliminary activity- analysing and making intelligible
what is, or trying to. I'm not going to try to do this on WSN because it
isn't the appropriate forum, altho it has certainly become one of the most
attractive forums on the net. But I hope to contribute here as I have in the
past; I promised Rene Barendse a long response to his wonderful long piece
about Keyneseyianism and still haven't done it. Shame.


Mark Jones
http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard N Hutchinson" <rhutchin@U.Arizona.EDU>
To: "Mark Jones" <jones118@lineone.net>
Cc: "world system network" <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:23 AM
Subject: oil and what is to be done


> Mark-
>
> I just took a look at some of Laherrere's work and other related material
> on the Hubbert Peak and so forth on Jay's site, and I have a question for
> you, given that you focus on the issue of the impending crash of the
> oil-based capitalist world-system:
>
> What is your view of what should be done, and what resources can you
> recommend for the views of others on this question?  Praxis!
>
> What I'm hoping for is something other than "wait for the crisis to become
> severe, and launch an uprising."  I realize it may come to that, but it
> seems altogether preferable to try to forestall that eventuality if at all
> possible.
>
> (I've never been partial to the old Third International theory of General
> Crisis, although oil running out is not quite the same thing as declining
> rate of profits, I realize.)
>
> Richard Hutchinson
>
>
>