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

  • Andrzej3K [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 days ago

    The problem with third worldism is that it is kind of true, and that does present western leftists with something of a sick note — if there is zero revolutionary potential in the imperial core then why not just enjoy your treats until the global proletariat overthrow us? I struggle with this myself tbc

    • freagle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 days ago

      That’s a problem of interpretation, not analysis. All accurate analysis is accurate concretely, not abstractly. It was true at the time it was articulated that there was no revolutionary potential and the reasons were specific and concrete. Those reasons still hold today, but hold less so than they did back then.

      The interpretation is not, therefore, that we can just abandon the project but rather that the task of revolutionaries in the core is to analyze the core from the inside, understand how the conditions produce the resultant revolutionary potential, identify what conditions need to be met, and work towards bringing about those conditions.