Of course it is. How do these foreign companies own such large amounts of land in these countries? (Hint: US-sponsored coups). Why are these countries producing large amounts of a single crop via monoculture practices instead of solving for the nutritional needs of their own population?
If you live anywhere where a banana cannot grow and get them cheaply, you’re benefitting from imperialism regardless of where the banana you actually eat is grown because it’s the cheap bananas from those banana republics that determined the market value.
Or maybe it is a reminder that these complicated legacies are still with us? Would you prefer only essays written on imperialism?
And I have no idea how just one county setting up banana Republics has anything to do with it. Would other countries still not benefit from being able to buy artificially low cost products. At the expense of the county being exploited?
Yeah, all the shit on your shelves, defense contracts, trade regulation, financial markets, so fucking much…even gps (which came to be via cold war weapons research into ballistic missiles and location and targeting needs of the US military
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Of course it is. How do these foreign companies own such large amounts of land in these countries? (Hint: US-sponsored coups). Why are these countries producing large amounts of a single crop via monoculture practices instead of solving for the nutritional needs of their own population?
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If you live anywhere where a banana cannot grow and get them cheaply, you’re benefitting from imperialism regardless of where the banana you actually eat is grown because it’s the cheap bananas from those banana republics that determined the market value.
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Mix in a bit of slavery, I too think it’s a form of imperialism
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What’s cutthroat capitalism then?
Can you name some examples of banana-growing exporters that weren’t undermined by the US to the point of banana republic
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What a wonderful “technically correct” answer.
Then what is it?
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At the barrel of a gun? I think that is considered to be under duress.
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Or maybe it is a reminder that these complicated legacies are still with us? Would you prefer only essays written on imperialism?
And I have no idea how just one county setting up banana Republics has anything to do with it. Would other countries still not benefit from being able to buy artificially low cost products. At the expense of the county being exploited?
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Sure, ONE country did it, while about 100 cheered., And queued up for deliveries.
Everyone loves to shit on America, without acknowledging their home country’s very happy entanglement with them
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Yeah, all the shit on your shelves, defense contracts, trade regulation, financial markets, so fucking much…even gps (which came to be via cold war weapons research into ballistic missiles and location and targeting needs of the US military
I live in Canada and we absolutely benefit from American hegemony. Same goes for anyone in the global North who benefit from the same
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