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Abstract
[First paragraph]
These are the words of The Preacher (a character in Frank Herbert's Children of Dune who is simultaneously the metaphorical reincarnation of the fallen prophet, Muad'Dib, and the self-exiled Emperor, Paul Atreides) as he addresses the masses enslaved by their devotion to his messianic Empire. These words, culled from the pages of science fiction, are more than mere exposition from Herbert's narrative, they point toward several important conditions facing the political world today. These conditions concern certain failures of democracy and effects of globalization spawned, in part, by an intensification of imperialist expansion in the name of democracy.
Repository Citation
Williams, Kevin. "Imperialism & Globalization: Lessons from Frank Herbert's Dune." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 3, no. 3, 2003, pp. 1–10. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol3/iss3/11
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