Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 4:41 PM -0400 6/2/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
So do you think we'll "run out" of oil - in the economic, not
physical sense - before we choke on the smoke and CO2?
"Before" is a time-related concept, no?
Doug
Yeah, but saying "before we choke on the smoke and CO2" and saying
"before we exhaust all known oil reserves" both have the same
End-Time status in discussion of time -- which is to say,
irrelevant.
Marx and Keynes' innovations concern the introduction of secular
time -- time of production, time of circulation, time of
consumption, and perilous dependence of each on the others -- to
political economy.
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Gosh, I didn't know that. Thanks!
What do you suppose "in the economic, not physical sense" means?
Doug
The reference to "the economic" is put in the sentence about "running
out" of oil, though -- it's the End-Time discussion again. We have
to be able to think about oil and other natural resources, as well as
other ecological questions, in contexts other than that of the
End-Time discourse.
--
Yoshie
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