Third Worldism

Third Worldism is a political ideology and intellectual stance that sought to re-center world history and politics around the experiences and struggles of the global South (the “Third World”), often framing capitalism and Western imperialism as the primary source of global injustice and recasting narratives of Western innocence.

Claims that use this term

• Third Worldism recast the golden-age myth of Western innocence lost
• Third Worldism functioned as an aggressive accusation of the capitalist system