A Small Place- Colonizing Capitalism in "Post-Colonial" Times

My favorite primary reading of the quarter, so far, has been Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, so naturally it's my pick for research paper fuel.  While the entire book is an exemplary reading of tourism as a colonizing force, I focused on Part 1 and was struck by the book's opening passage on pages 1-14. The narration of "you" arriving in Antigua and "you" making your way from the airport to "your" hotel sets the tone and focus of the book.  The reader is accused of being an ignorant tourist that forces Antigua to cater to Eurocentric needs as much as it had before colonization left the country.  In fact, the book uses the accusatory "you" to force the reader to look past the Eurocentric perspective- where Antiguans are supposed to welcome foreigners with open arms- and understand the poverty, low wages, and poor living conditions that tourist economies can perpetuate.  Bad sewer systems, broken-down libraries, bad roads, and bad wages are pointed out as the reader floats by without helping or taking responsibility for such conditions.

I felt that Kincaid's work encapsulates the phenomena of capitalism as a colonizing force.  As we've discussed in class, business often replaces a colonizing force, like a foreign's country's military or government presence; The East India Trading Company and the sugar companies in the film Queimada were both very real instances of a foreign company's interference in a country causing economic upheaval and near or total enslavement of the country's population to the business's interests.  In my paper, I think I'll focus on the idea of "colonizing capitalism" in the context of Antigua and Kincaid's insight.  Has business become a colonizer, or was capitalism mean to replace or augment colonialism when slavery fell out of favor in colonizing countries?  And if capitalism was always a colonizer, how do we reduce the negative impacts of "colonizing capitalism" in modern times?  Fair trade pacts and practices, a living wage, and less foreign interests in impoverished countries might help, but is that really enough?