Critique of 3rd Worldism

I think the 3rd worldist theory, as that of many Maoists who believe in it, needs to be revised. I usually follow Jason Unruhe on YT who is a MLM Third Worldist but recently with this protests he is also beginning to question this theory, and many people here and in other places have already casted a doubt on it. So I think this needs to be analyzed, I personally don't believe it to be true, maybe it was true in the past but today it certainly isn't, and it pretty much looks like it supports the status-quo (I am not saying it was deceptively created, but it could be by accident).The theory states that the 1st world proletariat/labor aristocracy is too bought off to be revolutionary, so any revolution has to happen in the 3rd world first. At first glance it seems logical since definitely the US and other imperialist countries have had it good and have apparently a sloppy working class while most seriously struggles have been happening in the past 100 years in the 3rd world, but I think this issue is more nuanced.My first problem is that this sounds like some sort of armchair capitulation and has a sort of white-supremacist flavor to it, as if you have to wait for brown people to liberate the world while white people just sit on their asses and watch the revolution on the TV. But even if we don't look at it from this perspective, even if the 1st world proletariat is not revolutionary, this doesnt excuse any sort of movement from not happening. The 1st world could still participate in anti-imperialist struggle, and aim for some reformism at least to undercut the superprofits, and kind of struggle is better than nothing, and it forges class solidarity, so anything is better than just doing nothing.Now 3rd worldists actually admit this, that this is the way to go, just do some activism in the 1st world and try as much to block imperialism as possible. However I always had my doubts about the entire formulation of things, and especially with these riots happening things may not be like this in reality.My main issue is how this violates proletarian internationalist principles and categorizes people into this and that faction, and this is good if there is a class distinction since we are Marxists, but if there isn't, then it sounds more like bourgeois divide&conquer.What we have to ask ourselves is that is there any distinction between the 1st world and the 3rd world proletariat?I would say there isn't. Now I am not denying imperialism, the 3rd world is oppressed as proletarians + imperialism, so they have an extra burden on their heads, but this doesnt mean in any way shape or form that they are "different" proletarians than the 1st world. We are the same, this is the point, and I don't think it's good to divide workers, because our goal is to unite the workers not to divide them. Follow the last line of the manifesto!So what is happening?What is happening is that the proletarian movement have been decaying since Khruschev and this was a worldwide sabotage, so the reason why the 1st world is not revolutionary is not because of some abstract labor aristocracy phenomena, but because we have been beaten back and sabotaged and bought off by the ever increasing and more intrusive capitalism. This was a worldwide phenomena, it's just that the 3rd world was not capitalism by this time it still had tribal and feudal elements. Today capitalism reigns supreme so the older modes of production are mostly gone with a few local exceptions, and as the economy got more uniforms, the intrusiveness of capitalism has corrupted the working class and made everyone more individualist and obsessed with commodities instead of solidarity with fellow workers, so the revolutionary potential fell everywhere. So advocating for a revolution in the 3rd world today is just as unlikely as in the 1st world, plus the occupying armies make sure of that. So until capitalism remains strong (which days are really numbered) and imperialism persists in it's current form, there is really no distinction between the two.Let's talk about numbersOkay so first I was bamboozled by "american dream" type shit as I grow up I got completely westernized, I'm from an ex-socialist country from EE. Now wages after the regime change have been about 50 EUR/month, and seeing all the western propaganda about how good life is in the US and all the suburbs and middle class stuff, sort of fooled us all. Seeing how everyone had a car, a house,and lived the american dream has propagandized us all, because we were living very badly after it, but not as bad as you might think it's just that in my head I thought I was living bad when in fact americans were too it's just that I only saw the good side of the US. So basically wages were 50 EUR, everyone had a house (we still have, there are only a few renters) they inherited, a loaf of bread was like 0.5 EUR, 50 KG of sugar was like 1 EUR, food was super cheap, medical care was free, and you could sort of survive despite the crumbling economy. Now this lasted until about 2000 when neoliberalism just blasted off and everything got privatized but fast forward 20 years and the average wage here is 300-400 EUR, while in the US it's 1000$, a typical surgery here costs 300 EUR, I had a complicated surgery 2 years ago and it cost 2000 EUR, kind of expensive but with savings you can do it. A livable house costs like 50,000EUR which is not very affordable but with mortgage you can manage, if you inherit some money you can pay it off easier, but most people still inherit something so it's not as bad yet. A car is like 1000-2000 EUR and maintenance about 100EUR/year excluding fuel. Rent is about 50-100 EUR but most people dont. And you monthly grocery bill is like 100 EUR , utilities like 50 so you have at least 100 EUR for discretionary spending. And I am just a regular worker with no union. So then I see stuff in the US, 5000$ for an ambulance ride? 10,000$ for nursery care? 100,000$ for surgery? 200,000$ for tuition? What the fuck, how can you afford these extreme prices for a 1000$ income. And rent is like 500$. Also even a shitty coffee drink is like 10$, I can bug a bag of coffee for like 6 EUR. So where is the american dream? It doesnt exist, even my shitty 2nd world country which was ravaged by pillaging and theft and neoliberalism, where everything is privatized even public toilets and trash cans, we still have a better living standard than the US,even though we are under direct imperial occupation. Yeah average wages are better in the US because you have a shitton of billionaires, but median wages are only slightly better while costs are massively worse and median living standards are massively worse. Like the only serious concern I have is about the healthcare system which has been looted, not about the price, which is not expensive but about the quality, since our best doctors all emigrated and we are left with fuckheads who cant even perform an appendix removal without leaving the tampons inside you, but even a private hospital here is only 2-3x more costly than the state one. Like the US lifestyle has to completely adapt to the austerity, so you people have to take massive commutes from rural areas because rent costs are extreme in the cities, but you dont find jobs in rural areas so you work like 9 hours plus 3-4 hours commute, you work 60 or more hours a week and are under constant stress, then you have to take stress medicine, and it's a vicious cycle. Even my shitty ravaged country is not as bad. So the idea that the US is some rich utopia has to be completely forgotten.So this is what I am telling you comrades, there is no difference between the 2 proletariats, we are really the same and we are under the same western brainwashing, and even Africa is now starting to develop, especially the areas influenced by China. So this 3 worldist theory is obsolete.So when you see these protests erupt in the US, it really just shows you the angryness of the US working class at the misery they live under, and they can be revolutionary as capitalism is in crisis once again. So there is no reason why a revolution can't happen in the 1st world, it would be very hard to do, since the imperial state is very strong, but as the crisis deepens, eventually it will become a possibility. But this idea that the west lives better, is nonsense, only the rich billionaire fuckers live well, all of us workers are suffering. So as Marx said: workers of the world unite! via /r/communism https://ift.tt/3eE457D