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 broad tendency which is mainly concerned with the infusion and synthesis of Marxism—particularly of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist persuasion—with concepts of non-Marxist Third Worldism, namely dependency theory and world-systems theory.

There is no general consensus on part of Maoist-Third Worldists as a whole. However, the majority of proponents typically argue for the centrality of anti-imperialism to the victory of global communist revolution, as well as against the idea that the working class in the "First World" is majority-exploited (sometimes arguing that it experiences no exploitation at all), and therefore, it is not a part of the international proletariat.

Theory

In its most simplistic and undeveloped forms, Maoism-Third Worldism argues that the workers of imperialist countries "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 Maoist 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

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
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