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The community has joined alongside other ideologists and journalists such as [[Caleb Maupin]] and [[Jackson Hinkle]] in criticizing the ineffectiveness of the [[Synthetic Left]] in the [[United States]], while promoting genuine proletarian culture in a [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] fashion. | The community has joined alongside other ideologists and journalists such as [[Caleb Maupin]] and [[Jackson Hinkle]] in criticizing the ineffectiveness of the [[Synthetic Left]] in the [[United States]], while promoting genuine proletarian culture in a [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] fashion. | ||
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One of the core tenets of Infrared's theories is that most communists, in the | One of the core tenets of Infrared's theories is that most communists, in the West, miss the sense of objectivity that made Eastern marxists successful. The reason for this is that most communists undialectically assume, often unconsciously, that the contradiction that gives rise to socialism and communism is between the world and its injustices and the socialist/communist experiencing this, while a principled Marxist position would be that the contradiction is inner to the object itself. Instead of trying to understand the material reality of the people, which is the basis of every communist state, western communists are stuck in an abstract idealized form of it. | ||
Another idea of the Infrared collective is that western thinking cannot understand the deeper truth of [[Marxism-Leninism]] because of its origins in cartesianism, and that it's only through thinkers like Heidegger (and others influenced by him like Kojève and Dugin) that marxist-leninist experiences can be truly understood in the west. | Another idea of the Infrared collective is that western thinking cannot understand the deeper truth of [[Marxism-Leninism]] because of its origins in cartesianism, and that it's only through thinkers like Heidegger (and others influenced by him like Kojève and Dugin) that marxist-leninist experiences can be truly understood in the west. |