Amid controversy surrounding Zohran Mamdani’s rise to power in New York City, Hussein Mansour tells Thomas all about the history of Third Worldism — where it comes from, what it originally meant, and why the term has resurfaced.
Thomas and Hussein discuss:
- Zohran Mamdani as a symbol, not a cause, of a broader elite transformation
- The Third Estate, the French Revolution, and the revolutionary inheritance of modern radical politics
- Interwar Paris and the emergence of Third Worldist intellectuals
- Négritude, anti-colonial humanism, and the promise of historical redemption
- Decolonisation, revolutionary violence, and the crisis of postcolonial states
- How ideological failure was reinterpreted as structural oppression
- The migration of Third Worldist ideas into Western universities and institutions
- Edward Said, postcolonial theory, and the institutionalisation of grievance
- Third Worldism today less as a political programme than an elite posture
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