On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:15:00 +0100, clipka wrote:

> ... judging from the Wikipedia articles, that's exactly what it is
> /not/, even though at least the term "third world" is commonly used in
> Germany synonymously for "developing world" (which is how I have alway
> percieved it).
> 
> Instead, according to the 'pedia, it is indeed a political division,
> more or less precisely defined as capitalist-democratic countries,
> communist countries, and all the rest.

I was thinking more of the "Three Worlds Theory", which cited it as a 
politico-economic division.  Under that theory, though, the USSR would 
(I'd think) count as a first world country (as one of the superpowers).

Jim

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