Third World NIEO rhetoric reworked Marxist class struggle onto global relations

Evidence

Lal (1978, 10) argued that the rhetoric of equality mobilized by Third World states as a justification for the NIEO in part “represents the transfer of the Marxist notion of class and class warfare to the international scene.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1824

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Third Worldism functioned as an aggressive accusation of the capitalist system — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 395; The NIEO was a Marxist assault weaponized against Western wealth. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1765; Third-worldist nationalism regresses from the Marxist critique it displaces