Editing Infrared (section)

==== 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.