Abstract
Abstract Colonial structures, such as the triangular trade between Britain, West Africa, and the Caribbean, have served as a breeding ground for the development of global capitalism and its beneficiaries, who continue their political domination via economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Even without the colonial structures to support it, capitalism as an economic practice and ideology also fails on a functional, ethical, and moral level to foster justice and enhance the common good, as capitalism critic Christian Felber points out. Stephanie Black’s documentary Life and Debt (2001) and Sergio Bianchi’s feature film Cronicamente Inviável (2000) likewise discuss capitalism’s inability to connect with concepts of justice, as their examples of Jamaica and Brazil, two post-colonial countries that share historical and social similarities despite their different positions in the current global economy, show. While Jamaica in Life and Debt serves as a case study of enforced economic and political dependence through the IMF by means of an extension of colonial hierarchies, Cronicamente Inviável looks at the ideological side of capitalism embedded in the microcosm of Brazilian society.
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