I don’t really fuck with the first, second, and third world concept but everyone I have met who would call themselves a third worldist (even jokingly) was really cool. I think I also fall into this catagory but I want to make sure I am understanding it correctly.
Reading wretched of the earth rn
Usually some kind of Maoist. I treat the white ones with a healthy dose of skepticism and distrust. Perfect example being folks like BadEmpanada. There are some extremely chauvinist people that claim that label.
Some people seem to treat it like a “cure” for being white (weird mindset to begin with) and just do vulgar hatred on kkkrakkker kkkountries without proper analysis. Others just treat it as having a very heavy focus on imperialism and colonialism as the primary issue of the communist movement of our time, which I think is correct and good.
Yeah the latter are cool.
The latter is what I have the most experience with fortunately
Third worldist whites pretty much think they’ve found a loophole to being a bigoted piece of shit to those around them
It’s also a weird reversal of white saviorism
They love to fetishize peripheral revolutionaries coming to save/overthrow their government to a degree that absolves them of not doing the work themselves.
It’s funny to say
, but if someone really believes that that’s going to happen, and that even if it did it would be a solution, then they’re believing some very strange, incorrect, and counterproductive things.
I have been proven completely wrong and am now filling out my dual J. Posadas and L. Trotsky apology forms.
Honestly just a new form of orientalist fetishism and similar in essence to being a sex tourist
It’s definitely at least partially orientalism, but let’s not exaggerate here. There’s a serious coercive nature to sex tourism that shouldn’t be minimized.
Edit: did you edit your comment? I didn’t notice “in essence” the first time I read it before replying. It’s possible I just missed it, apologies if so. I agree they can come from similar places, but I don’t think it’s fair to generalize that. Sex tourists are deeply malicious racist creeps trying to do an end-run around consent and get a spouse they have as much power over as possible (i.e. r*pists). Most of the vulgar “third worldists” are just deeply alienated (often young) people who aren’t even interacting directly with the people they’re fetishizing.
Yeah, I was exaggerating quite a lot there lol
Yeah, white people, especially from the global north, calling themselves Third Worldists tend to be weirdos.
Anyone remember Jason Unhrue? The communist Youtuber with no rizz, a bright red mohawk, and self published his writing as “The selected works of Jason Unhrue”? That guy was a Self described Maoist Third Worldist lol