Re: Oil & Socialism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  >I think it is not very likely that the world makes a transition from
>>fossil fuels to non-fossil fuels under capitalism.  Mark thinks that
>>it is technologically impossible to do so; I, in contrast, think that
>>it is politically impossible to do so under capitalism.
>
>These led me to believe that you and others considered capitalism and
>fossil fuels inextricably linked and hence my comment to Jim re
>dissolving capitalism.

Capitalism has come to be dependent on fossil fuels, yes, but *so has 
actually existing socialism been, & it will remain so in the 
foreseeable future*, so oil dependency does *not* define *either* 
mode of production -- it has become common to both, which is an 
empirical fact.

Yoshie