Stalinist Golden Center

The Stalinist Golden Center, otherwise known as the "Golden Center", "Golden Stalinist Center", "Golden Path" or "dialectical centrism", is the pragmatic political strategy employed by Joseph Stalin. Fundamentally, it is the rejection of both left- and right-deviationism.

Deviationism can be understood as Revisionism, dogmatism, factionalism, and other forms of inconsistent or malicious thought within politics. Stalin paved the path for an explicit, rational, dialectical appraisal of political tendencies/lines of thought, wherein the political object is taken by the subject in both its objective historical development and its interrelation (or lack thereof) with the proper leadership of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Stalin upheld Marxism-Leninism as the tangentially congruent successor to Marxism and dialectical thought as a historical phenomenon. In rejecting both "ultra-left" and right deviations from (tendencies arisen from) Marx and Engels' works, as well as both ultra-left and right deviations from Lenin's line of thought, he successfully synthesized Marxism-Leninism and lead the Soviet Union through some of its most difficult years. Trotskyism, on the ultra-left hand, and Bukharinism on the right were both eschewed by Stalin, who eventually purged them and their followers from the CPSU in the 1930s. The ultra-lefts and the rights, in exile, settled in New York and began flooding authentic left-wing political organizations with their artificial subversive discourse as wreckers. Where they could not join organizations they founded their own, finding any old nook or cranny in which to stick their unpopular ideology/platform. This, along with the influence of the Frankfurt School, monopolist NGOs, and others in American left-wing politics, converged as the foundation of the New Left-- a conglomerate of highly-developed (and therefore highly complex, or "far flung") deviant tendencies which lead the American masses away from Marxism-Leninism and class struggle. The obfuscation of the rationality and pragmatism of the Golden Path was precisely the goal of such ideologically and financially motivated activities. Thus, Stalin managed to protect the U.S.S.R. from such wrecking and infiltration in his expulsion of political extremists and rejection of bourgeois socialism, in keeping with Lenin's pragmatic political approach.

When Khrushchev took power after the death of Stalin, Mao upheld Stalin's line and the Sino-Soviet Split occurred in light of the condemnation of Stalin and the rejection of Stalin's own rejection of deviationism. Thus, the People's Republic of China (PRC) became the determinative inheritor of Stalin's legacy, which Xi Jinping still upholds today. Of course, there has been development since the times of Stalin and Mao, but the dialectical, anti-dogmatic, anti-revisionist grounding of oneself (or a Party) in a pragmatic politics imbued with dialectical materialist thought still serves as the bedrock of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao's "Golden Center" path of anti-deviationism and rational dialectical pragmatism. In fact, Chinese slogans such as "do not encourage, do not discourage" embody the essence of the Golden Center, and China's many parties working towards the same aims and the same masses reflect the strengths of the path Stalin greatly helped to forge.

In America, we understand this deviationism well, but not in so many words. George Washington warned against factionalism and one-sided (dogmatic) partisanism in his farewell address. Washington, whose family left England precisely because of the civil wars of the 17th-century, never represented a party himself and had watched the development and rise of the Democratic-Republican Party, which was in constant conflict with the Federalist party. John Adams warned that "a division of the republic into two great parties … is to be dreaded as the great political evil." Whereas Alexander Hamilton called political factions "the most fatal disease", James Madison is quoted as saying one of the great strengths of a “well-constructed Union” is “its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.” We also teach the concept to children in the classic story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

In a word, the Golden Center is the mutual rejection of both extremes in favor of an objective, dialectical approach to the false subjective element of politics or problem-solving.

Infrared upholds the Marxist-Leninist line following through from Marx and Engels, through Lenin and Stalin, through Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and most recently Xi Jinping. However, in addition to defending the line of "Stalinism", Infrared has an official line of its own which has been the object of various claims, the rejection of which and ultimate clarification of our positions, aims, and overall thought has not only left our haters/competitors/deviationists on intravenous copium drips for the rest of their lives, but they have also caused splits within Infrared and between Infrared and former allies.

Here we intend to set the record straight on the claims levied against us throughout our history.

LaRouchism ("LaRouchite" claim)

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