Di, kno: Third world is something the people embraced even in what we now call the global north. We think about organizations like the black panter party, when we think about min the united kingdom,. figures like taracali or in france, or john porsartr you know, they would have described themselves to a certain extent as third world ist in their orientation. And i think that their lot of that history has been lost e over the past few decades. Di, kno; going back to michael manley, seeing how much of a challenge opposed to global capitalism, i think, is really useful.
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