>>2795484>What I meant to say is if Settlers was published in 1983 and J. Sakai didn't spring up from nowhere then saying Third Worldism is a "90s art project" seems historically inaccurate.Sakai would most accurately probably be put as a partial result of the eclectic direction developed by post- Black Panther Party developments, after all intercommunalism already became a thing by the 70s.
American MZT/Maoist milieu is very insular and peculiar though, from an international perspective, so it's not really that odd that it often gets overlooked when people write about "Maoism" from an international basis (outlining things it has in common across terrains). For example from a personal perspective, as a non-american, I know I'm under-read on the Black Panthers post-repression in US history (the dense glowopping of it all doesn't make it easier either) and I've been reading about ML/Maoist stuff for multiple years at this point. It's way easier to get a picture of MLM from doing the reading on Philippines, India, etc.
But anyway that's why I think the OP also overlooks that national particularity that would probably have fleshed out the section on american MZT/MLM leading to contextual clarification on an environment. Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, 'intercommunalism' turn, Sakaiism, RCPUSA, ThirdWorldism, Avakianist deviationism. There's a lot of stuff there for sure. But very different from what was taking shape internationally as
the international Maoist movement. Sakai and ThirdWorldism rejects the proletariat. Intercommunalism rejects hismat. RCPUSA/Avakianism rejects the ML and MZT on opposing Great Man worship.