The Third World has continually collapsed into competing national units

Evidence

It is in this double motion – the differential assimilation of each of the national-bourgeois states into the structure of imperialist capital, the mutual competitions and even warfare among the Asian and African states – that the so-called Third World has kept on collapsing into its constituent units, starting certainly with the Sino-Indian War of 1962, if not earlier, and decisively since petrodollars became a linchpin of the imperialist economy and a force of destruction in the non-oil-producing countries in the imperialized world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 30

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Comecon collapse threatened to replace Three Worlds Theory with eclectic difference-play — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 361; Postcolonial Third World states grew more competitive and fragmented, not unified. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 81

Related

• Postcolonial Third World states grew more competitive and fragmented, not unified. (similarity 0.89)
• Comecon collapse threatened to replace Three Worlds Theory with eclectic difference-play (similarity 0.85)
• Rising oil prices benefited imperialist economies while wrecking other imperialized states (similarity 0.84)
• Post-colonial states grew more differentiated and competitive, not more unified (similarity 0.84)
• The term Third World originally named military non-alignment, not geography or modes of production (similarity 0.82)
• The world cannot be compartmentalized into discrete First, Second and Third zones (similarity 0.82)
• Three Worlds Theory subordinated mass movements to national-bourgeois states (similarity 0.81)
• The category ‘Third World’ has polemical but no theoretical status (similarity 0.79)
• The world forms one contradictory capitalist unity, not three separate worlds (similarity 0.79)
• The term Third World derives from the French Third Estate (similarity 0.79)
• The term ‘Third World’ fuses three distinct meaning-sets. (similarity 0.78)
• Third World wars and oil price rises chiefly benefited imperialist economies (similarity 0.78)
• The ‘Third World’ term gained legitimacy precisely because both communists and anti-communists deployed it (similarity 0.78)
• Third World literary theory’s rise marked retreat from activist anti-imperialism (similarity 0.78)
• The Western media invented a tripartite world based on military blocs, not production modes. (similarity 0.78)