Editing Infrared (section)

== Technology, Industrialism, and Accelerationism ==
Infrared is to a limited extent, and with deep critical reservations, influenced by the ideas of British philosopher Nick Land and the schools of thought influenced by him.

What Infrared adopts from the 'accelerationist' view is the irreducibility of the productive forces and the scale of time at which their development occurs to the narrow limits of 'inter-subjective discourse.' However Infrared simultaneously rejects the view that the productive forces accelerate at the expense of humanity altogether, instead electing to reexamine Western assumptions about the nature of humanity.

For Infrared, Western assumptions about the state likewise deserve critical reexamination. Rather than an 'intersubjective social contract' or amalgamation of 'inter-subjective relations,' Infrared regards the ''universal state'' (Kojeve) as an objective integration of all history. The acceleration of the productive forces thus occurs ''in time'' at the same scale that the universal state exists ''in space.'' This gives Landian accelerationism a geopolitical twist, which opens a new frontier of dialogue between accelerationist thinking and geopolitical thinkers like Dugin.

Infrared recognizes the content of Communism to lie in the development of the productive forces, which, moreover participates in the development of history itself. Rather than accept the accelerationist critique of universal humanism outright, Infrared regards it as necessary to develop a new conception of what universal humanity ''is'' in the first place, from an ''individual'' to a ''collective'' and ''super-historical'' being. 

==== Rejection of Green Politics ====
While accepting the basic insights of ecological thinking and Xi Jinping's notion of "Ecological Civilization," Infrared rejects 'green politics' as the one-sided elevation of nature over and at the expense of industrial civilization.

Additionally, Infrared rejects the peculiar and inherently anthropocentric aestheticization of nature corresponding to green politics, which effectively reduces nature to the 'vibrant' and 'colorful' biosphere depicted for humanity's aesthetic consumption. Infrared rather believes a stronger emphasis should be played, in ecological thinking, upon the destructive geological and cosmological forces that are simultaneously the basis of natural development and progress in natural history. 

Most importantly, Infrared fiercely opposes the resurgence of Malthusianism and 'degrowth' paradigms, which reject industrial and technological civilization on the basis of a superficial 'anti-capitalism.' For this reason, many have mistakenly over-exaggerated the influence of Lyndon LaRouche's critique of neo-Malthusianism on Infrared, despite Karl Marx's own well-known critique of Malthus and views on industrial civilization.<ref>''See'' specifically: 

"Malthus’s theory, which incidentally not his invention, but whose fame he appropriated through the clerical fanaticism with which he propounded it – actually only through the weight he placed on it – is significant in two respects: (1) because he gives brutal expression to the brutal viewpoint of capital; (2) because he ''asserted'' the fact of overpopulation in all forms of society,"  ''and''  

"It is Malthus who abstracts from these specific historic laws of the movement of population, which are indeed the history of the nature of humanity, the ''natural'' laws, but natural laws of humanity only at a specific historic development, with a development of the forces of production determined by humanity’s own process of history." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch12.htm

''See also'':

https://www.marxists.org/admin/search/index.htm with the author listed as "Marx, Karl" and the "Exact Phrase" as "Malthus."</ref>

Infrared rejects both 'green' and 'technological' utopias, accepting the rugged contradictions of both technological civilization and nature itself to be the fundamental basis of human and historical development. It regards these 'dreams' as infantile attempts to escape responsibility for the concrete development of the productive forces. While Infrared embraces the aestheticization of the latter, such an aesthetics, even those speculative, must be grounded in a minimal realism. 

==== Promotion of Science Fiction ====
Infrared's aesthetic orientation heavily draws from the science fiction genre, drawing from Landian notions of time and hyperstition as well as an interpretation of the present orientation of Chinese cinema. According to Haz Al-Din, contemporary socialist realism must be based on science fiction as the realization of the future has become an ever-present, unavoidable and objective realty.

How the future is being realized, related to and imagined is an unavoidable part of the post-capitalist civilization humanity has long begun to transition into. Infrared views the purpose of contemporary art to lie in giving expression to the lofty aspirations of humanity, as long as they do not serve as a medium with which to escape the contradictions of reality rather than reconcile them.

Major aesthetic inspirations Infrared draws from include, but are not limited to:

* Death Stranding
* The Wandering Earth 
* The Three Body Problem
* The Terminator series
* The Works of Fan Wennan

Chinese science fiction artist Fan Wennan was among the first to be interviewed by Infrared, even before Haz began livestreaming.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhooFz-Tfz8</ref>

==== Views on AI, Intellectual Property, and Social Parasitism ====
Infrared strongly approves recent trends in the development and promotion of AI-generated art, regarding them as objective and irreversible developments of both the productive forces and technological civilization. It rejects 'criticisms' of AI-generated art as inherently and self-evidently reactionary by every possible standard or metric one may use within the tradition of Marxism.

Infrared rejects the 'grievances' of 'artists' as legitimate grounds for class struggle. It rejects artists as a 'class,' regarding such a relation to the productive forces as parasitic. Infrared rejects that artists, writers, and other 'creative workers' are 'entitled' to anything on the basis of their 'work' whatsoever, viewing art as a privilege only those willing to struggle and make sacrifices are worthy of. 

As such, Infrared fiercely opposes the 'labor organizing' of Hollywood writers and Netflix employees as mockeries of the labor movement. In Infrared's view, no amount of 'organizing' or 'protesting' can make up for a lack of sufficient taste and talent.

==== Views on Service Workers ====
In contrast to the lies propagated by mentally ill 'leftists,' Infrared does not oppose service workers. Rather, it opposes the 'labor strategy' according to which the institutionalization of 'bullshit jobs'<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp/150114331X</ref> can sufficiently represent the aspirations of general labor. According to Marxism, the aspirations of general labor is represented by the proletariat. 

Rather than be conducive to a movement of 'general labor,' the institutionalization of bullshit jobs, such as Starbucks baristas, amounts to craft-unionism which Marxism stands opposed to as an objectively reactionary force retarding the productive forces and the development of proletarian class consciousness.  

Infrared also regards it as opportunistic and self-serving that 'leftists' commit to 'organizing' graduate students, baristas, and Hollywood writers. Infrared regards this as opportunistic not because these groups are the most strategically important for the labor movement, but because they tend to reinforce 'leftist' discursive and cultural bubbles to the detriment of the aspirations of general labor.

While Infrared rejects the view that service workers create capital on the shop floor, or are 'proletarians' in the context of the shop floor, Infrared does not oppose service workers. It rather believes that the interests of general labor and service workers in general must revolve around the destruction of 'bullshit jobs' all together. Infrared holds that this is accomplished by politicizing the demand for a shorter work-week, automation of the service industry, and reindustrialization.

Infrared does not view this as hostility to those struggling to make a living working in the service industry. It rather regards the destruction of the service industry itself to be in the interests of both service workers and ''general labor'' as a whole. Infrared likewise does not view the 'organizing' of prostitutes to be in the interests of the majority of the victims of the sex trade. It rather regards the wholesale abolition of the sex industry as in the best interests of its victims.