>>26296>What is Third WorldismIt's a strand of maoist thought that considers the "primary contradiction" to be held in the globalization and imperialist characteristics of capitalism, rather than class struggle in the developed countries per se.
Mao's view on contradictions was that they existed into everything, and that at a given point in time there was always a primary contradiction and secundary contradictions, which rested upon the former. Any changes in a object for him reflected the evolution of contradictions, between opposing characteristics with potential to overcome one another. For instance, a lion requires food to live but also risks his life whenever he hunts. The other dilemmas that a lion can face are secundary to the sustenance of his livelyhood (primary/secundary contradiction).
Based on this theory of contradiction, third-worldists think that the "primary contradiction" in modern-day capitalism is the need to export labor in third world countries to have low-costs, whilst simultaneously keeping their conditions inferior to western countries. According to them, if the living conditions in the third world increased, or if the capitalists were unable to export labor there, they would not be able to keep their profit margins and would collapse. Therefore, according to third worldists, the primary issue shouldn't be emancipating labor in the first-world, which they see as contingent on the third world's exploitation, but rather the emancipation of third worlders from first-world capitalists.
>What are your thoughts on Third Positionism?Doesn't work. You can't reconcile the interests of the working class with that of the bourgeoisie because you either have to abandon for-profit commodity production or retain it. There's no "in-between". This is a simple issue really : you can't simultaneously have workers decide production (otherwise production would be socialized) whilst also allowing the bourgeoisie to decide it aswell. In essence, you can't have 2 bosses telling you 2 different goals and directions. Historically, third-positionnists have tried dividing property up or having strong unions but the logic of capital has so far always been able to overcome these hindrance.