The Third World remains a career opportunity for those it supposedly liberates.

Evidence

The East, reborn and greatly expanded now as a ā€˜Third World’, seems to have become, yet again, a careereven for the ā€˜Oriental’ this time, and within the ā€˜Occident’ too. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 368

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly extends the reader’s Foucault/Society Must Be Defended thread on how counter-histories get reabsorbed into institutional careerism, now in postcolonial guise. — connects to: Third World masses revive the revolutionary role the industrial proletariat lost — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2217

Broader Connections