In the Algerian version let's create big states enterprises to counterbalance dependence from industrialized countries. And this sort of echoes the early Venezuelan concept of sowing the oil. What are called today you know there's a flourishing of agenda 2034 Saudi Arabia this and that. That was already done in the 1970s except with a much greater role of the state than it is in these plans of today.
Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The second in a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world system.
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