ABSTRACT

THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION AT THIS CONFERENCE,* AND I THINK appropriately so, of the modes of state repression which have been created within or directed against the Third World. The latter term has been employed, appropriately enough, in conformity with Mao Zedung’s famous observation that the planet has been divided essentially into three spheres: the industrialized, capitalist “First World”; the industrialized, socialist “Second World”; and a colonially underdeveloped “Third World” which may be either socialist or capitalist in its orientation, but which is in either event industrializing.1