Editing Infrared (section)

==== Socialist Patriotism and the Rejection of Cosmopolitanism ====
Because of Infrared's rejection of Lukács and 'Western Marxism,' it recognizes, drawing from basic Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy, the objectivity of nations and countries as the fundamental context of class struggle.

As opposed to a narrow form of nationalism, Infrared regards ''countries'' as objective and integral receptacles of historical development, and appreciates the wisdom of Marxism-Leninism's rejection of ''historical nihilism''. As such, not the narrow context of the nation-state, but what in today's world amount to ''regional-poles'' suffice to constitute objective historical formations.

Infrared therefore rejects 'nationalism,' but also and simultaneously rejects cosmopolitanism for the same reason. And in fact, the rejection of the nation-state as the fundamental context of class struggle actually represents one of the main critiques Infrared has of the orthodox Marxist-Leninist view of the nation. This means that the view of Infrared is ''less nationalist'' in orientation than orthodox Marxism-Leninism. 

Infrared regards the Marxist-Leninist conception of the nation to have borrowed from Social-Democracy, and narrowly confined to the paradigm of the nation-state. Such a view is 'euro-centric' and historically has yielded mixed results as far as satisfying the authentic national aspirations of non-Western peoples for whom the paradigm of the nation-state amounts to balkanization and the destruction of otherwise integral, multi-ethnic civilizations. Lenin's national policy deserves critical examination. It is clear that the Soviet Union and even today's Russia amounts to an integral Eurasian civilization irreducible to any 'nation-state.'