Third Worldism functioned as an aggressive accusation of the capitalist system

Evidence

Despite these accusations, the LSF figures implicitly recognised that Third Worldism was what Kristin Ross has termed ‘an aggressive new way of accusing the capitalist system’ and the neo-imperialist relations that had succeeded formal colonialism. LSF constituted a similarly aggressive counterattack. Its disparate group of liberals, humanitarians, Atlanticists and Reaganites found unity in the rejection of ‘Western guilt’ over colonialism and opposition to Third Worldist demands for restructuring the international economic order. In doing so, they drew on themes developed by the neoliberals over the previous decades. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 395

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The aggressive-accusation framing of anti-capitalist critique relates to the reader’s published piece on sacrifice and moral framing of political economy.
• XREF: The ‘neoliberal themes drawn on over previous decades’ points forward to the book’s core thesis about how human rights and markets converged. — connects to: A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 356; Third World NIEO rhetoric reworked Marxist class struggle onto global relations — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1824; Neoliberals tarred Third World redistribution schemes as totalitarian — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 427 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A new Left intellectual type combined Third World rhetoric with anti-communism #expands (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 356
• Neoliberals tarred Third World redistribution schemes as totalitarian #exemplifies (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 427
• Third World NIEO rhetoric reworked Marxist class struggle onto global relations #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1824