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maaku
10y ago
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Mao didn't invent the term...
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seanmcdirmid
10y ago
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Right, but China was technically third-world (non-aligned) at that point.
maaku
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10y ago
Or it was 2nd world (non-free).
seanmcdirmid
10y ago
Albania was communist but was classic third-world given its rejection of the USSR. China would have been under the same umbrella in the 70s. Of course, now the cold war is over and the term doesn't make much sense in its original context.
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