Anti-tiers-mondisme polemics repeated colonialist predictions about post-independence Africa.

Evidence

As early as 1978, Jacques Julliard had launched the media polemic against tiers-mondisme with an article that prophesied that, in Africa, there would be ‘no socialism except a totalitarian socialism’. As critics noted at the time, the terms of this anti-tiers-mondiste condemnation of the postcolonial state replicated colonialist predictions about what would eventuate in the colonies if independence were achieved, depicting them as places of barbarism and oppression. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 436

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s knowledge of the original moral panics around anticolonial movements and how ‘civilising’ discourse gets repurposed. — connects to: Colonialist justifications recur largely unchanged in post-war development discourse — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1590

Broader Connections

• Colonialist justifications recur largely unchanged in post-war development discourse #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1590