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The History of Capitalism

Today's political and social order is shaped very much by the history of this global capitalist system. The exploitation of nature is really critical to historical development of capitalism. We couldn't have this economic system if you didn't decide that humans could use nature in this way. In order to even exploit nature as humans did historically, you needed also to exploit human labor.

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