As Vijay Prashad brilliantly articulates in The Darker Nations, The "Third World Project", which begun really in the early 50s and metastisized in the 60s, was not a solely leftist endeavor. The way the Vietnamese, the Russians, Moroccans, South Africans, Cubans, Mexicans, American Blacks and Latinos. etc visualized decolonizing and liberating themselves from Western rules had many ideologies and social manifestations. At times it could be hyper conservative, while at other times very liberal, it doesn't discount that most failed, but the failure and the shrinking of those various movements under one very vague umbrella term of communism is unfair and inaccurate.