The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ✨ Hannah Arendt (197…

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1972). Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1972). Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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