The Age of Mamdani

Parasitism Made World

Perhaps no modern ideology met so strange a fate as Third Worldism—that pastiche of Marxian slogans, anti-Western rage, grievance theology, anti-Christian spite, and avant-garde aestheticism. Born in mid-century France, half Sartrean existentialism and half Parisian café radicalism, it had its brief apotheosis as the banner of liberation after the Secon…