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Developing and expanding industries generally requires money, and lots of it, which is often best (or only) able to be aquired via international trade. When I said "McDonald's hasn't been running around, wiping out traditional food", what I meant was "I checked for sources to back up your...

That's not quite the correct definition, as the page you cite says. And while there are countries that are dependent on a single or small number of exports, to my knowledge they are exclusively poor countries that went from having next to no trade, to trading one thing. It's a problem because...

The companies that created banana republics did so with the cooperation and military's force of the United States Government, which in turn supported the companies because their continued profitability and growth served the interest of the state. Larger, more powerful states exploiting weaker...

Free trade is what allows nations that otherwise would have no viable means to interact with the international market to do so in a competitive manner, that's the entire point behind comparative advantage. As for being forced into it.....no, I don't think that's the case? No one has the power to...

The classism in that example there is only implicit, and other examples of that same framing are explicitly not about class. Something like White Fragility is very clearly written for the average white middle class liberal, and it labels them as racist along with the elite. Let alone the openly...

Some comments: I don't think this is true, there are plenty of people and groups on the left that are very focused on ethnicity, race, the importance of culture, etc. There's something of a marxist influence on that focus in that they have a habit of framing everything in terms of oppression...