The most fucked up thing about economic imperialism is that governments will literally kill their own citizens using a military if they protest working conditions because they work with a wealthy company. Companies encourage that. They’ll allow workers to be punished for trying to form a union.
Capitalism is horrific and I hope those people die in my lifetime. I hope capitalism dies in my lifetime too but I doubt it will happen.
Banana Republics are the first thing that comes to mind here.
Yep that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
From 1932 onwards the indigenous population of El Salvador was systematically targeted and exterminated by its military forces for protesting against coffee corporations buying the vast majority of arable land and empovirishing local farmers.
Those same corporations applauded the Salvadoran president at the time, regarding him as “having the iron fist necessary to protect economic interests.”
Throughout the decades those who even resembled members of the indigenous community were shot and killed in their homes and in the roads.
People had to abandon their identity in order to survive. Nowadays, the indigenous population of El Salvador practicing their culture and speaking the indigenous language is limited to small settlements also targeted by gang violence.
The people in charge covered this up for years. They only started teaching this at school recently. I graduated high school from there about a year ago.
Capitalism is cruelty. Capitalism is violence. Capitalism is death. There is nothing benign about a system that prioritizes capital over human lives.
There have been over 2,800 labour union leaders and members killled in Colombia since 1986. That’s roughly one every three days.
If you’ve ever heard of the Coca Cola death squads, that shit is real as hell