The world cannot be compartmentalized into discrete First, Second and Third zones

Evidence

These overlapping histories which connect Chile with Italy, Nicaragua with Gorbachev’s global perestroika, Angola with Portuguese communism and Soviet weaponry, and even the defeat of the Portuguese Revolution with subsequent sequestration and defeat of the revolutions in the former Portuguese colonies, should lay to rest any idea that the world is really divisible into the discrete singularities of First, Second and Third. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 36

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critiques of Cold War tripartite models of the world used in postcolonial and world-systems theory. — connects to: Bandung was not an expression of abstract Third-World nationalism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1296; Jameson’s First-Third World binary is empirically ungrounded against real economies. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 387; India’s capitalist economy refutes Jameson’s First-Third World binary.

Related

• Jameson’s First-Third World binary is empirically ungrounded against real economies. (similarity 0.86)
• The world forms one contradictory capitalist unity, not three separate worlds (similarity 0.83)
• The term Third World originally named military non-alignment, not geography or modes of production (similarity 0.83)
• The Third World has continually collapsed into competing national units (similarity 0.82)
• India’s capitalist economy refutes Jameson’s First-Third World binary. (similarity 0.82)
• Bandung was not an expression of abstract Third-World nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• The category ‘Third World’ has polemical but no theoretical status (similarity 0.80)
• Postcolonial Third World states grew more competitive and fragmented, not unified. (similarity 0.79)
• The Western media invented a tripartite world based on military blocs, not production modes. (similarity 0.79)
• A single world capitalist unity replaces the three-world schema (similarity 0.78)
• The Three Worlds framework erases class and gender difference within nations (similarity 0.78)
• The term Third World derives from the French Third Estate (similarity 0.78)