I have often heard ultra-lefts describe Marxists who oppose settler-colonialism and uphold AES as being “Third Worldists”.
Looking at what people like Jason Unruhe have to say about the topic, Third Worldism does not seem entirely baseless (e.g. the proletariat in the imperial core more often being labor aristocrats).
So, what are our thoughts on Third Worldism?
Lots of people already in the west use it to justify sitting on their ass because everyone else is “inherently reactionary” ignoring the relative downward trend of the wages and living standards of the most oppressed classes in the west, the growing social unrest, protests, street actions, etc every year. I think understanding super-profits and the labor aristocracy is an important part of our analysis that needs to be considered, but westerners using it as a reason to pre emptively give up so they can be online armchair communists who have arrived at the Correct Positions that just so happen to require no action on their part to organize since it’s already a lost cause by their view is frustrating, pointless, and defeatist
While I partly agree I think you are underestimating the importance of agitprop. Most western leftists can’t do much other than agitation and doing so online is a valid method.
Much of the global north is still a long way from popular uprising and at this stage the actions that are needed often don’t look much like work compared to the situation in usa where there are physical direct actions are needed.
Pushing the “correct positions” is an important job to avoid people falling to ultras or social fascists.