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

[Doug Henwood]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> It is very possible that the "Third World" never existed during the
> heyday of the ideology of Third-Worldism, for most of the
> "Third-World" nations in practice tilted to either the "East" or the
> "West."  Perhaps the only authentically Third-World nation was the
> Islamic Republic of Iran: neither East nor West, in the sense of
> neither of the capitalist bloc nor of the socialist bloc1; and neither
> Eastern nor Western in its cultural mythology.2

East? West? China is in the same box as India? Argentina in the same  
box as Haiti? And you accuse others of Orientalism?

Doug