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
Sorry, what does being a “third worldist” mean? Like they’re from a country thats been labelled “third world”?
My understanding of it was that third worldists believe world socialism will arise from the most oppressed portions of the imperial periphery because of the acute contradictions created by imperialism and colonialism but I wanted to ask to make sure it wasn’t mistaken
That’s correct AFAIK.
loosely, third-worldism was a left-wing political movement in unaligned nations during the cold war (US sphere / soviet sphere / neither) and there was a bunch of international diplomacy happening. OP is asking about the contemporary meaning and that’s fuzzier since it doesn’t exist as a movement the same way it used to.