Editing Third World (section)

=== Third Worldism ===
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Third Worldism is a political movement that argues for the unity of third-world nations against first-world influence and the principle of [[Non-interventionism|non-interference]] in [[Westphalian sovereignty|other countries' domestic affairs]]. Groups most notable for expressing and exercising this idea are the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] (NAM) and the [[Group of 77]] which provide a base for relations and diplomacy between not just the third-world countries, but between the third-world and the first and [[Second World|second worlds]]. The notion has been criticized as providing a [[fig leaf]] for human rights violations and [[political repression]] by [[dictatorship]]s.<ref>{{cite report |last=Pithouse |first=Richard |date=2005 |url=http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?3,28,11,1994 |title=Report Back from the Third World Network Meeting Accra, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028163706/http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?3,28,11,1994 |archive-date=2011-10-28 |publisher=Centre for Civil Society |pages=1–6}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=July 2023}}<!--Having read the whole article, the closest statement to the claim it's cited as a source for is the observation that 'Third Worldism is popular among Third World autocrats'. Nothing about 'providing a [[fig leaf]] for human rights violations and [[political repression]] by [[dictatorship]]s'. Moreover, the author defines Third Worldism in a way very different from this section, namely 'the idea that Third World elites were the privileged historical actor (that will deliver the world from the tyranny of capital)'.-->

Initially, the term “third world” meant a nation was under-developed or impoverished.<ref>{{cite journal | title=Third Worldism and Internationalism | date=2003-01-01 | doi-access=free | last=Nash | first=Andrew | journal=[[African Sociological Review]] | volume=7 | issue=1 | issn=1027-4332 | doi=10.4314/asr.v7i1.23132 | quote=Third Worldism can be defined roughly as the political theory and practice that saw the major faultline in the global capitalist order as running between the advanced capitalist countries of the West and the impoverished continents of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and saw national liberation struggles in the Third World as the major force for global revolution. Third Worldism was the form of internationalism specific of an age in which colonial rule was coming to an end -an age in which the economic power of western capital remained intact, but its global political dominance was contested. It was the internationalism of an age in which the capitalist divide between economic and political power was in the process of being globalised but was not yet firmly established, in which formal equality among nation-states accompanied continuing and thengrowing inequality in the global economy.}}</ref> Nowadays, it means “developing".{{fact|date=March 2025}}