#second world

Stop using “third world” to mean “poor” and “first world” to mean “rich”

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Timeline of Germany's land campaigns during the Second World War

-Mod C

“Much globalization scholarship assumes that the United States and other advanced industrialized capitalist countries are the primary agents of globalization. Meanwhile, in spite of nonaligned and socialist countries’ historical claims to internationalism, scholars have often presented Third World countries primarily as passive victims of globalization and socialist countries as autarkic and thus isolated from the rest of the world until the 1990s.2 Both supporters and critics of globalization have equated economic globalization with capitalism and specifically neoliberal capitalism.3 This would make it difficult to understand Che Guevara’s statement above. Such scholars have also pointed to alternative globalizations, grassroots movements opposed to neoliberal capitalism, but these movements have been understood more as political protest movements than as producing economic globalization.4 However, if we examine economic globalization more closely and from the perspective of Second and Third World institutions, we can see that the Non-Aligned Movement, the Second World, and the Third World more broadly worked hard to create a global economy in the face of active resistance by the United States and other current and former colonial powers, which sought to maintain the economic status quo of the colonial system. Only later, in the 1980s and 1990s, after the defeat of Second and Third World internationalism, could the United States and other core capitalist countries coopt and exploit the emergent global economy for their own benefit and appear as agents, rather than enemies, of globalization.”