• @UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT
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    36 months ago

    Just look up United Fruit Company and start reading:

    The banana trade symbolizes economic imperialism, injustices in the global trade market, and the globalization of the agricultural economy. Bananas are also number four on the list of staple crops in the world and one of the biggest profit makers in supermarkets

    It’s not just land grabs by people wearing crowns

      • @UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT
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        36 months ago

        Sure, modifier, or a type of imperialism, or one of several meanings. It’s how the word is used, including by people in this thread and elsewhere. Therefore the phenomenon is both corporatocracy and imperialism and more.