“King Leopold’s Ghost”

Discuss “King Leopold’s Ghost” in terms of the following: the construction of the culture of capitalism/society of perpetual growth in Western Europe and the U.S. during the late 1800s and early 1900s; the global commodification of nature and human labor in that context; the construction of the characteristics of global labor in the culture of capitalism; and the repercussions for society, economy, politics, and ecology in the Congo.