The world as a plantation. Colonialism never ended — it evolved.
Colonialism never ended. It evolved. After centuries of violent occupation, the formal withdrawal of European powers from the Global South was marketed as liberation. But in place of colonial governors came international banks, Western corporations, and puppet regimes loyal not to their people, but to capital. Flags changed. Chains did not.
In the Congo, when Belgium staged its so-called decolonization in 1960, it preserved control over mineral resources. When Patrice Lumumba sought to reclaim Congo's wealth for his people, Belgium, with active CIA coordination, orchestrated his assassination and installed Mobutu Sese Seko.
In Chile, Allende's push to nationalize copper was met with a CIA-backed military coup in 1973. In Bangladesh, the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, which killed over 1,100 workers, revealed a supply chain built on corporate greed and political complicity.