The rise of petro states and petro capitalists was premised on the rise of oil consuming countries. The car industry, at least in the United States, went in parallel with the expansion of the oil industry. $15 gets you an entire year of Jacobin in print and access to the magazine's very extensive archive.
Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The first of a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world system.
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