Absolutely. I think there's a lot of bad rep for third worldists because they've had to deal with more than their fair share of people hijacking their theory and language, but in general the principles are on point.

But also I think we may sometimes discard its tenets as a meme/joke rather than taking it seriously (as I have done so here, regrettably). I'm thankful that even if the language is different now, colonialism and its consequences are finally being thoroughly critiqued within the economics of class and race by socialists the world over.

I apologise for the snarky/joke comment!

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I wasn't trying to dress you down, and I'm sorry if it came off that way.

I was merely using the memery to explain how the OP tweet is completely wrong, because even within the context of Marxism there are Marxists who read the scantest of theory and are like 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN GLOBALLY I'M THE BAD GUY?'. This usually comes out when Conservatives point to the fact that the American poor are economically way richer than global poor. Which is correct and is merely a rephrasing of imperial capitalism. So upon seeing these arguments they usually dismiss them in an illogical way because the only thing they learned from Socialism in one country vs International Socialism is 'Trotsky bad'.