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America doesn't take Iraqi people and force them to slave away in our factories, and kill them if they ask questions or don't do their job. But the Glukkons do that to Muds, and that's why Abe does what he does. It's about fighting slavery.
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Very true. But American companies DO take away the livelihoods of self-sufficient peoples by buying land (with sources of wealth these people couldn't possibly have had access to) and then offering them 5 cents an hour working on land they once owned. Even if they aren't beaten or killed, they are forced to conform to a system which allows them only bottom-feeding rights, where they once were masters of their own fate. Surely this is considered taking away freedom?
And consider what happens if they don't do their job and are fired? Driven out of the only place they've known, and into the cities to find lower-paying jobs in even worse conditions. It's true that Oddworld emphasizes wrongs being done in the world beyond the true act. But these events are so under-estimated and trivialized that you rarely consider the actual harm being done. Even less does one consider (As a U.S. citizen) that it is american companies that do it.
Still, this is the way of capitalism. Especially capitalism post-globalisation.
Sorry if it's a little late to respond to this, but I kind of got caught up, as max says "arguing the same point."