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The Petroleum Industry: Imperialism at Its Finest
Azra Talat Sayeed
Roots for Equity, Pakistan
October, 2007






“If human society is not adapted to its environment, it is not meant for this world” John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: materialism and nature, p. 241.

Introduction
Oil and gas are only a three letter word but are responsible for some of the bloodiest wars in the world pushing lives of the common person into depths of poverty and misery. The lust for oil and other sources of energy including natural gas and coal is based on maintaining the vast industrial empire of the capitalist elite of the World, with the United States the biggest predator in the game. Today the world’s production rests heavily on machinery much of which is dependant on oil. However, the means of production are controlled and owned by the mega billion corporate sector. The overwhelming goal of the petroleum......

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