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Democracy and Empire investigates the interconnections between labor, nature, and the perpetuation of capitalist systems within both democratic and imperial contexts. Ines Valdez provides a critical analysis of how capitalism sustains itself through the simultaneous exploitation of human labor and natural resources across different political structures.
The work challenges conventional understandings of democracy by revealing how democratic institutions often coexist with and enable imperial resource extraction. Valdez traces historical and contemporary patterns showing how the reproduction of capital depends fundamentally on the subordination of both workers and ecosystems. By linking environmental degradation to labor exploitation, this study demonstrates that sustainability and social justice are inseparable from critiques of capitalism itself.
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