[lbo-talk] The Idea of the Third World (was Re: Iran and Latin America)

[Eubulides]

On 10/1/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:


> Paradoxical as it may sound, for the first time in history, there may
> now exist conditions for the birth of the objective correlative for
> the idea of a "Third World," i.e. independence from hegemony of great
> powers.

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"Objective correlative" is a zombie category at the least, in the
discourses of international relations.

Spend some time with Robert Young's "Postcolonialism" to get a sense
of what I'm asserting.

Ian