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I’m increasingly convinced that Zineb Riboua’s concept of Third Worldism captures the dominant ideological formation of the contemporary left. What operates today is not Marxism in any meaningful sense. It has little to do with Marxism’s economic core—working-class struggle, industrialization, or the expectation that world revolution would emerge from advanced European societies. Already with Lenin, that premise was displaced, as revolution was relocated to the Russian periphery. With Mao, the shift deepened further, centering the peasantry and people's war. The trajectory of Marxism thus became one of progressive peripherization, ultimately shedding its foundation in the contradictions of industrialization.
Nor can this formation be coherently described as “wokism,” since its alignment with Islamic fundamentalism would otherwise be unintelligible. That alignment becomes legible when Islamism replaces the proletariat as the privileged revolutionary subject, cast as the leading edge of a global struggle against Western power. In this sense, Third Worldism names the overarching frame, that antizionism replicates as a kind of compressed scale model, with Israel as the symbol of Western evil. Antizionism and Third Worldism are two ideological sides of a single coin.
Across the dialectic of history, a left that began with working-class agitation has bottomed out in raw anti-Jewish hate. The process is similar to Nazism in many ways: a global concept of of the world organized around the black hole of Jew-hate at its center, one destined to destroy itself in nihilistic violence.
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