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i finally got around to reading this piece and it's a good rebuke to those who deploy the phrase "imperial core" and conceptualize EVERYONE within it as living a First World lifestyle.
https://medium.com/@merricatherine/an-introduction-to-the-fourth-world-1b054b680bb9
@mooncake but what's interesting is that it's a compass not tied to the map of nation-state borders.
I'm reminded of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine where she discusses the other side of this, the world collapsing into a series of green zones.
@aaaaargZombies there is a similarity but the different is that the Fourth World is cut across racial & class lines and not just zones of general safety.
@not_into_it "the Fourth World isn’t a single nationalized entity, but a compass that directs our liberation strategies toward permanently bettering the existence of the subaltern of subaltern populations."
nice / i like the idea of a compass (political compass jokes aside)