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The American right has a new enemy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In , the State Department argued that Havana has become \u201cthe beating heart of a new and distinct kind of Marxism\u201d \u2014 which the State Department calls \u201cThird Worldism.\u201d Cuba is spreading this doctrine, per Secretary of State of Marco Rubio, with the explicit intent of fomenting revolution in America.<\/p>\n

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Here, the Trump administration is following conservative influencers \u2014 who in recent months have become increasingly preoccupied by the \u201cthird worldist\u201d threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Left is moving from \u2018woke\u2019 to Third-Worldism,\u201d Chris Rufo, perhaps the right\u2019s leading activist, recently wrote. \u201cThird-Worldism is a more serious threat to life, liberty, and property.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ben Shapiro, one of conservatism\u2019s leading media voices, declared in April that \u201cthe future of the Democratic Party is radical third worldism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And Reihan Salam, the president of the influential Manhattan Institute (which employs Rufo), has warned that \u201cThird Worldism, left unchecked, won\u2019t remain on the radical fringe\u201d \u2014 citing New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the chief example of a third worldist in power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All of this may be news to Mamdani and other Democrats, who virtually never use the term to describe their own views. So what are Rubio, Rufo, and Shapiro talking about? And is there any truth in the various claims about rising third worldist influence?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The answer is more complicated than it might seem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Conservatives are using \u201cthird worldist\u201d a lot like the terms \u201cwoke\u201d and \u201ccritical race theory\u201d before it: as an ill-defined concept that serves as a clearinghouse for various right-wing grievances and can be used as a slur to discredit and demonize the left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet at the same time, they\u2019ve actually put their fingers on something real. Among a very specific and visible sub-section of the socialist left, a set of views that can be reasonably termed \u201cthird worldist\u201d are rising in prominence. For progressives outside this camp, deciding what comes next will require engaging with the right-wing critique directly and not dismissing it as a smear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What \u201cthird worldism\u201d means, on both the left and the right<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The term \u201cthird world\u201d itself originated in a 1952 article by the French thinker Alfred Sauvy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The capitalist West was the \u201cfirst world,\u201d and the Communist Eastern bloc \u201cthe second.\u201d Most countries outside of North America and Europe were, at the time, aligned with neither bloc \u2014 making up the \u201cthird world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For this reason, the earliest ideology that fits the term \u201cthird worldism\u201d was not Marxist, but rather efforts like the Non-Aligned Movement to build global solidarity between post-colonial states who were trying to avoid being dominated by the two competing world powers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Communist regimes in the Global South \u2014 most notably, China and Cuba \u2014 became inspirations for a distinctively Marxist spin on third worldism that emerged in the 1960s and \u201970s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This theory held that the locus of revolutionary activity had shifted to 1) armed revolutionaries of the Global South and 2) militant movements within the capitalist world led by oppressed minorities. Out with the Communist Party USA and the Soviet Union; in with the Black Panthers and the Viet Cong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This broad worldview had many ideological influences \u2014 ranging from Mao\u2019s Little Red Book to the French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon\u2019s The Wretched of the Earth<\/em>. Some leftist writings, like the Weather Underground manifesto Prairie Fire<\/em> or the well-known pamphlet The Mythology of the White Proletariat<\/em>, are clear examples of what might be termed \u201cthird worldist\u201d thought.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But on the whole, this kind of third worldism is frustratingly tricky to pin down. It has no authoritative spokesperson, no text or movement that clarified its core principles in any detail. It is a label attached to ideas from the outside, as often by those ideas\u2019 enemies as by their allies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c\u2018Third worldist\u2019 is almost a pejorative [term] you would use on the left,\u201d said Bhaskar Sunkara, the president of The Nation magazine and author of Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Trump administration and its allies are basically arguing that people like Sunkara are trying to trick you. Whatever the modern left\u2019s protestations, their actual views are still basically pretty similar to those of Cold War American radicals who apologized for the Khmer Rouge. Only in this case, the most admired Third World militants are now jihadists rather than Communists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The most influential work in this vein comes from Zineb Riboua, a fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute think tank. She sees third worldism as a joint product of anti-American governments, including Cuba, and leftist intellectuals in American universities. Its recent prominence, in her view, is a function of October 7 and the Gaza war \u2014 which allowed third worldist logic to fuse \u201cseamlessly with the decolonial language\u201d that became popular during the woke era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIn this viewpoint, a terrorist organization like Hamas comes to be seen as the armed expression of a national liberation struggle,\u201d Riboua writes. \u201cThe question ceases to be what Hamas actually did and becomes what Israel is presumed to represent. And because Israel is positioned as the forward post of American imperial power, defending Hamas becomes, almost automatically, a moral gesture directed against the United States itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But Riboua does not stop with foreign policy. In her view, third worldism has become a kind of \u201cuniversal ideology\u201d that is \u201capplied to everything from university hiring and border policy to museum curation.\u201d When leftists talk about \u201cdecolonization,\u201d she argues, they are really talking about the planned demolition of America from the inside.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe ideology asks a country to accept that its power is a historical accident awaiting either correction with a sort of new Red Terror or annihilation,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This, for the right, represents the left\u2019s emerging \u201cpost-woke\u201d animating doctrine. While the 2020-era left was interested in policing conservative speech on social issues, it is now interested in acquiring political power and using it to tangibly transform America\u2019s policy and political institutions along Marxist and third worldist lines. It is \u201ca vicious, lowest-common-denominator leftism that imports anticolonial resentments to the metropole,\u201d writes Sarah Rogers, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The effect, ultimately, will be to transform the American governing model into something that more closely resembles that of a \u201cthird world\u201d country: corrupt, lawless, violent, and chaotic. The language they use to warn of this can be unmistakably racialized.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMamdani wants to plunder New York like the Somalis plundered Minnesota,\u201d Rufo writes. \u201cLegal or illegal, it\u2019s all piracy, looting, and expropriation. Pure third-worldism.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What the right gets wrong about third worldism \u2014 and what it gets right<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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By the time we get to \u201cZohran Mamdani is a pirate,\u201d it\u2019s clear that the analytic train has gone off the rails. Third worldism is no longer being used to define a specific and recognizable approach to geopolitics, but rather a pure insult with ugly racial insinuations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, while Mamdani is certainly a socialist with pro-Palestine politics \u2014 he announced this week he looked into arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but lacked legal authority \u2014 there is no evidence to suggest he is an anti-American Hamas admirer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As mayor, his governance has focused primarily on quality of life and cost of living issues. And far from couching his arguments in the language of anti-American revolution, Mamdani\u2019s recent address on July 4 was a classically patriotic text, whose praise for American soldiers and meditations on our \u201cgrand experiment in self-governance\u201d sound far more like Lincoln than Fanon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The attempt to lump Mamdani into a scary, foreign-sounding category recalls nothing more than the efforts to rebrand other left-wing ideas \u2014 like \u201ccritical race theory\u201d \u2014 into millstones to hang around Democrats\u2019 necks. Rufo was the intellectual force behind the CRT panic, back in 2021, and admitted at the time that his intent was political warfare rather than rigorous analysis. By coming up with a catch-all term for problematic left-wing politics, they could apply it not only to the real \u201ccritical race theory\u201d \u2014 which were largely abstruse academic texts \u2014 but also ordinary Democratic policy or generic liberal ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have successfully frozen their brand \u2014 \u2018critical race theory\u2019 \u2014 into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think \u2018critical race theory.\u2019 We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read in this light, the right-wing allegation that third worldism is supplanting woke is more confession than anything else. From McCarthyism to the Reagan era and on through Newt Gingrich warning of Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cKenyan, anti-colonial\u201d worldview, the right has deployed fearmongering about foreign subversion as a central tactic to delegitimize its opponents and rally the base. The sweeping allegations about the entire Democratic Party being overtaken by third worldism represent a fusion of this old Red Scare blueprint with the new Rufo tactics of mimetic-conceptual warfare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s really nothing new here,\u201d said David Austin Walsh, a historian of the right at the University of Virginia. \u201cThird worldism is a term that\u2019s being utilized to describe the exact same thing as what was meant by \u2018the international Communist conspiracy\u2019 back in the 1950s and 1960s.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Yet Walsh, who is himself a DSA member, also acknowledges that there\u2019s a nugget of truth here. Much as the Communist Party USA actually was a Soviet cut-out, there are people and factions on the American left that actually fit the description of \u201cthird worldism\u201d advanced by Riboua and her fellow travelers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The most obvious example is Hasan Piker, the streamer and provocateur who has become a lightning rod in debates over the Democratic Party\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Piker has repeatedly expressed admiration for the Chinese Communist Party, despite its vicious authoritarian tendencies, and said he would vote for Hamas \u201c1,000 times\u201d over Israel. My colleague Eric Levitz described his worldview as \u201ccampist,\u201d an old leftist term for someone who aligns themselves with any government that opposes the American-led bloc, and one that I think is a bit more precise than \u201cthird worldist.\u201d But Piker\u2019s fascination with anti-American militancy and terrorists \u2014 he once gave a fawning interview to a Houthi fighter on stream \u2014 suggests that third worldist is at least a reasonable descriptor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another example is Neville Roy Singham, a Chicago businessman who sold his consultancy for $785 million and has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to leftist causes around the world. Singham, who was known to monologue to his employees about the virtues of Che Guevara, is at the center of what the New York Times describes as \u201ca lavishly funded influence campaign that defends China and pushes its propaganda.\u201d Though he funds American leftist organizations like Code Pink \u2014 in fact, his wife, Jodie Evans, is its cofounder \u2014 he currently resides in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There is also a third worldist activist current. The International Caucus of the DSA, one of many sub-organizations within the leftist faction, has celebrated the \u201cachievements\u201d of Cuba\u2019s authoritarian government and whitewashed Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine (which, again, is more precisely campist than third worldist). Students for Justice in Palestine, the leading pro-Palestine campus activist group, praised the October 7 attacks as \u201ca historic win for the Palestinian resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And this tendency could be gaining its first representative in Congress. Darializa Avila Chevalier, a DSA candidate who recently unseated a multi-term House incumbent in a Democratic primary in New York, has accused Black and Latino men of \u201cfetishizing ugly colonizer women\u201d and retweeted a message praising Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro. While her public statements are more limited than those of Piker or the DSA IC, there\u2019s at least reasonable grounds for believing that she\u2019s cut from the same cloth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The left\u2019s third worldist problem<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So what to make of all this?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Right-wingers like Riboua are picking up on real trends in leftist ideology, ones that are reflected to some degree in its institutional infrastructure. And interestingly, the leftists I spoke with conceded that there were some things to worry about here. Arash Azizi, a socialist historian at Yale University, said that this \u201cnegative third worldism\u201d was a \u201cserious trend\u201d on the broader left. Sunkara was more skeptical of the term \u201cthird worldist, but he did express concerns with the DSA IC\u2019s tendency to forget \u201cfirst principles\u201d \u2014 by which he meant core commitments to democracy and anti-authoritarianism. He also critiqued pro-October 7 statements on the left as \u201cantiquated, ineffective, and morally questionable.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the same time, it is concomitantly clear that people on the right are overstating the significance of the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Views that might accurately be called \u201cthird worldist\u201d are controversial inside<\/em> the left and even within the DSA. And the left does not currently dominate the Democratic Party, despite a handful of primary victories this cycle. To say that third worldism has conquered the Democrats, or even that third worldism is the new \u201cwoke,\u201d is to get miles ahead of the evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Putting those two conclusions together yields a more precise diagnosis: that third worldist views are, by virtue of the DSA\u2019s electoral success, becoming a more prominent part of the broader left coalition even as its reach remains limited overall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While Mamdani cannot reasonably be described as a \u201cthird worldist,\u201d he operates in coalition with people who are. He filmed chummy videos with Hasan Piker; his endorsement rocketed Darializa Avila Chevalier to her primary victory. Like any political faction, the socialist left depends on alliances between sub-groups who have real and meaningful differences in worldview and approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When talking about this, Sunkara tried to disassociate the broader left from the third worldist subcurrent by analogy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt would almost be like me saying \u2018the Republican Party is programmatically committed to white nationalism\u2019 as opposed to saying \u2018the Republican Party sure does have some vocal white nationalists around,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThe difference is key.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But of course, the Republican Party\u2019s relationship with white nationalists has<\/em> been a significant political problem \u2014 and a moral one. However Democrats ultimately decide to handle these ideas floating around progressive circles, the process starts with acknowledging that they\u2019re real.<\/p>\n

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