French demographer, anthropologist and historian Alfred Sauvy, in an article published in the French magazine LObservateur, August 14, 1952, coined the term Third World, referring to countries that were unaligned with either the Communist Soviet bloc or the Capitalist NATO bloc during the Cold War.[2] His usage was a reference to the Third Estate, the commoners of France who, before and during the French Revolution, opposed the clergy and nobles, who composed the First Estate and Second Estate, respectively. Sauvy wrote, This third world ignored, exploited, despised like the third estate also wants to be something.[3] He conveyed the concept of political non-alignment with either the capitalist or communist bloc.[4] Third World vs. Three Worlds[edit] Main article: Three Worlds Theory The Three Worlds Theory developed by Mao Zedong is different from the Western theory of the Three Worlds or Third World. For example, in the Western theory, China and India belong respectively to the second and third worlds, but in Maos theory both China and India are part of the Third Non-Aligned World. Third Worldism[edit]
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