[lbo-talk] Walmart/War about oil?

[kelley at pulpculture.org]

At 07:09 PM 4/12/2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>kelley at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
>>Anywho, my question is: Is the nature of market discipline different if 
>>there's also an internal market of competing oil interests within a 
>>nation-state and those oil interests compete with all other oil interests 
>>on the market? Or is it simply enough that a nation's oil is subject to 
>>the discipline of the world market?
>
>My sense is that it doesn't matter for world prices whether it's state 
>companies selling into it or private ones;

so, why did clinton want to put pressure on the world to privatize?

I haven't been talking about the personal gain of capitalists through world 
oil prices. I'm talking about trying to understanding why _the neocons_ are 
acting rationally on their own worldview.

you may think it's is idiotic, but you probably also think it's idiotic for 
Walmart to treat employees as they do or Nike to spend ridiculous amounts 
of money on marketing. But they, in fact, do these things that appear 
irrational. And, just because they seem irrational from a rational choice 
calculus, it does not follow that they ARE irrational.

Again, sorry for the overpost, but I don't know how many times _I_ have to 
repeat myself: I haven't once yet reduced this to some simplistic "it's 
about lining the pockets of the bushevik" argument.

Kelley