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
even back in the day, third-worldism was a political movement and not all the unaligned nations were -ist
Yeah even then there was a clear difference between say Sweden and Austria (de Facto first world), the Non-Aligned Movement (Yugoslavia, Libya, Ghana, India, Egypt under Nasser, Indonesia under Sukarno) and Maoist Third-Worldist Guerillas (across most of the world but with the Philippines, Peru and parts of India as well known centers).
That said evening calling yourself a Maoist had different meanings. It could mean a Maoist Third Worldist or just a communist party that aligned with the PRC in the Sino-Soviet Split.