[Marxism] an ex-super power in the making

[Dbachmozart at aol.com]

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Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the  
Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political  
entity stumbled on for another two years, but it was clearly an ex-superpower  
from the moment it lost control over its satellites in Eastern Europe.  
Less than a month ago, the United States similarly lost its claim to  
superpower status when a barrel crude oil roared past $110 on the international  
market, gasoline prices crossed the $3.50 threshold at American pumps, and  diesel 
fuel topped $4.00. As was true of the USSR following the dismantling of  the 
Berlin Wall, the USA will no doubt continue to stumble on like the  superpower 
it once was; but as the nation's economy continues to be eviscerated  to pay 
for its daily oil fix, it, too, will be seen by increasing numbers of  savvy 
observers as an ex-superpower-in-the-making.  
That the fall of the Berlin Wall spelled the erasure of the Soviet Union's  
superpower status was obvious to international observers at the time. After 
all,  the USSR visibly ceased to exercise dominion over an empire (and an 
associated  military-industrial complex) encompassing nearly half of Europe and much 
of  Central Asia. The relationship between rising oil prices and the 
obliteration of  America's superpower status is, however, hardly as self-evident. So 
let's  consider the connection. 
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<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174929/Tomgram%3A%20%20Michael%2
0Klare%2C%20America%20Out%20of%20Gas>






All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it  is 
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur  
Schopenhauer (1788-1860)



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