Re: [DEBATE] : Chávez's slow construction of Socialism

[Dominic Tweedie]

No problem at all, Yosh,

Try: Specters of Malthus: Scarcity, Poverty, Apocalypse

Iain Boal in conversation with David Martinez

at: http://www.counterpunch.org/boal09112007.html

Boal begins:

"Sure. With respect to oil, we should begin with the observation that
the general problem for the petro-barons has always been glut, or to
put it another way, how to keep oil scarce. They've done a pretty good
job, although all monopolies have to be measured against De Beers, who
have the corner on diamonds. They are the world's masters at
constructing scarcity, in this case, of crystalline carbon, which is
actually rather common in the earth's crust."


On 17/01/2008, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 1:01 AM, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
>
> * What a theory of imperialism needs to explain is why the empire does
> things -- like the Iraq War, the Iran sanctions, the Sudan sanctions,
> the Burma sanctions, etc. -- that aggravate supply constraints, rather
> than easing them.  Many countries have discovered and undiscovered oil
> and gas reserves waiting to be developed.
> --
> Yoshie
> <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
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