I have come across an opinion that what is conscidered the prolateriat in first world countries (mainly USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe) has become part of the opressing part in global perspective. Like all sorts of benefits and material goods here is more than what you would expect from how much first world people work, and that the proletariat in third world countries (vague term I know, but I think you get it) are the ones being opressed.
And because of this it is only the third world that is capanble of revolution. Nothing will happened in the first world, and in fact basically everyone in the first world are part of the opressors that needs to be elliminated.
What are your (pural) thoughts on this? How prevailing is this viewpoint in communistic circles?
Oh, you mean Third Worldism.
It's not well-received, because it considers the rest of us to be Bourgeois Agents of Amerikkka who favor the First World first. That's nonsense. The vast majority of what TWs believe is already a part of Marxism-Leninism, and their departures from that (like declaring all First World workers to be next exploiters in line with the bourgeoisie) are not supported by materialist analysis. And furthermore, perhaps most problematically, is that TWs deny the existence of false consciousness; in their conception of the world, everyone is innately aware of their political class and the consequences of their political actions, such that conservative workers in the First World are such because they wish to preserve their quality of life which is only possible under capitalism, not because they've been duped into defending something that screws them over. It's a twisted misconception of material consciousness that makes a mockery of the concept.
And finally, there's no indication out in the real world that Third World workers hate First World workers or view them as their enemy, or that they would not welcome a socialist revolution in the First World. Indeed, they want the system ended as quickly as possible, and there isn't a group in the Third World that calls itself Third Worldist; the closest thing is MLM groups like Prachanda and Shining Path, but there's a world of difference between Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM) and MTW.
Shrill Third Worldists sound almost exactly like conservative poor-shamers and anti-communists, so I want very little to do with them. I know a couple who have their heads more or less on straight, but most of them are offensive and intolerable.
At least the only good thing is that movement is quickly falling apart. LLCO professes to follow "Leading Light Thought" now, that moron Jason Unruhe (the guy who makes those "Maoist Rebel News" videos on Youtube) has been exposed for the sexist, homophobic, racist FDCK that he is, so the only remaining group of any note is RAIM, and RAIM has both moderated their line somewhat to recognize that a First World proletariat of sorts does in fact exist, and have dropped the Maoism that initially characterized their ideology to become strictly Third Worldist.
EDIT: All that said, the Third Worldists have played a valuable role in re-evaluating the history of First World socialist and communist movements, which have had their own share of racism and protection of some aspects of Settlerism. It's been part of a force to re-center the fight on non-White minorities like Blacks, Chicanos, and Native Americans as oppressed nations inside of the settler states themselves, in parallel with the rising incorporation of intersectionality as a tactical weapon.
