Maoism (Third Worldism)

Maoism (Third Worldism) (often stylized as Maoism-Third Worldism or simply MTW), not to be confused with Third Worldism generally, is a theoretical stance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. It asserts that the majority of first-world workers "receive wages above the abstract value of labor, i.e. above the value of the goods and services exchanged throughout the world-economy in a given period divided by the quantity of labor through which it is produced, and so are not part of the proletariat because the magnitude of their wages are dependent on imperialist exploitation and could not be maintained without it".^[1]

Organisations

The Third Worldist movement is currently mostly associated with organizations such as the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement^[2] and Maoist Internationalist Ministry of Prisons,^[3] (a branch-off from the Maoist Internationalist Movement, a now defunct organisation). Although MIM Prisons considers its ideology to be "MIM Thought", not Maoist (Third-Worldist).

Further reading

• Divided World, Divided Class, Zak Cope
• Settlers, the Mythology of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai
• The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”, Bromma

References

1. "Maoism-Third Worldism". anti-imperialism.com. Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
2. http://www.anti-imperialism.com
3. http://www.prisoncensorship.info