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Infrared, officially The Infrared Collective, is a media collective and internet community led by political streamer Haz. Its main output is the Infrared Show, which has been censored by Twitch but is still available on YouTube. This wiki project, InfraWiki, intends to become a knowledge base for the Infrared community.

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 Marxist-Leninist fashion.

Content

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.

The infrared collective came up with the idea of Anglo Box, which refers to a way of thinking, mostly related to English philosophy, that consists in the reduction of the meaning of words to a fixed form, like a dictionary definition, which leads to the dogmatic thinking of BreadTubers like Vaush. This kind of philosophical illness is directly opposed to the dialectical method of Marx, Engels, Lenin and the other prominent marxist-leninist thinkers. ^[1]

Following the assassination of Daria Dugina, Haz delivered a video essay explaining the ideology of Dugin, defending his legacy against accusations of being a "fascist" as he's described by the Western corporate media and the Synthetic Left.^[2]

Questions of philosophy are also covered by Infrared streams.^[3]

Infrared has interviewed Grover Furr, the author of Khrushchev Lied.^[4]

Videos

Most of Infrared's content is video-based. It's been recommended that others download the longer videos to clip them into shorter, easier to share clips.

Official

YouTube
Twitch (suspended)

VODs (unofficial)

Links

References

↑ Vaush knows NOTHING about socialism - youtube
↑ Aleksandr Dugin: The Most Misunderstood Man in the World by Infrared 00:00 INTRODUCTION 00:38 I. WHO IS ALEXANDER REID-ROSS? 04:13 II. "PALINGENETIC ULTRA-NATIONALISM" 17:26 III. DUGIN & EUROPEAN NEW RIGHT 18:21 IV. GERMAN KONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION 20:31 V. TRADITIONALISM 25:35 VI. "FASCISM: BORDERLESS & RED" 32:32 VII. FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY 34:38 VIII. DUGIN'S ANTI-FASCISM 38:24 IX. LIBERAL RACISM AGAINST DUGIN 40:01 EPILOGUE
↑ Infrared Snapshots #20 | From Plato To NATO by Beyond Liberalism on YouTube
↑ The Lies We're Told About Stalin ft. Grover Furr by Haz of Infrared

[1] Vaush knows NOTHING about socialism - youtube

[2] Aleksandr Dugin: The Most Misunderstood Man in the World by Infrared 00:00 INTRODUCTION 00:38 I. WHO IS ALEXANDER REID-ROSS? 04:13 II. "PALINGENETIC ULTRA-NATIONALISM" 17:26 III. DUGIN & EUROPEAN NEW RIGHT 18:21 IV. GERMAN KONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION 20:31 V. TRADITIONALISM 25:35 VI. "FASCISM: BORDERLESS & RED" 32:32 VII. FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY 34:38 VIII. DUGIN'S ANTI-FASCISM 38:24 IX. LIBERAL RACISM AGAINST DUGIN 40:01 EPILOGUE

[3] Infrared Snapshots #20 | From Plato To NATO by Beyond Liberalism on YouTube

[4] The Lies We're Told About Stalin ft. Grover Furr by Haz of Infrared

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+'''Infrared''', officially '''The Infrared Collective''', is a media collective and internet community led by political streamer [[Haz]]. Its main output is the '''Infrared Show''', which has been censored by Twitch but is still available on [[YouTube]]. This wiki project, [[InfraWiki]], intends to become a knowledge base for the Infrared community.
-'''Infrared''' is a media collective led by '''Haz Al-Din''', a self-described Third-positionist, Neofascist, and "[[Patriotic socialism|patriotic socialist]]" based in Detroit, Michigan, [[United States of America|USA]]. As of 2022, the channel has about 20,000 subscribers and over 2,000,000 views.<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=Youtube|title=About|url=https://www.youtube.com/c/InfraredShow/about|retrieved=2022-7-12}}</ref> His community is based on a mixture of Neofascism, right-wing [[populism|populist]] rhetoric, and esotericism.<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=YouTube|title=What Infrared Is All About|date=2022-07-13|url=https://youtu.be/jwyqM8VcHR0}}</ref>
+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.
 == Content ==
-The Infrared collective is dominated by Haz, in regards to their content. Their youtube channel largely contains entire livestreams, mostly containing Haz, or clips of livestreams, such as notable parts of debates. Such content often includes, on its thumbnail, exaggerated or even fabricated quotes of what the other person in the debate said, along with other attention-giving pictures.<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=Youtube|url=https://www.youtube.com/c/InfraredShow/videos|retrieved=2022-7-28}}</ref>
+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.
-== Distortion of Marxism ==
-Haz described [[Feudalism|feudal]] countries including the [[Ottoman Empire (1299–1922)|Ottoman Empire]], [[Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)|Tsardom of Russia]], and [[Qing dynasty (1636–1912)|Qing dynasty]] as examples of "[[Actually Existing Socialism|actual socialism]]."<ref>{{Web citation|author=@InfraHaz|newspaper=Twitter|title=Example of Actual Socialism:|date=2022-01-10|url=https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1480351807838699521|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811223508/https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1480351807838699521|archive-date=2022-08-11|retrieved=2022-08-12}}</ref>
-== Ideology ==
-Haz and his community hold many "socially conservative views," upholding the [[American Revolution]] as a force of [[anti-imperialism]], and rapidly inherited the vestiges of the [[United States imperialism|empire]] in the aftermath of [[WWII]], when [[British]] [[capital]] was used to subvert the American republic through transnational and unconstitutional institutions,<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=Youtube|title=In Defense of the American Revolution|date=2022-07-04|url=https://youtu.be/yOIzZCnpXaY?t=9975|retrieved=2022-07-20|quote="what most people think of when they think of American imperialism is after World War II...
-I make the argument that after World War II you see a merger at best and more realistically a takeover by the architects of the new British empire...[of] the American state so America's you know global system and you know, it's crimes around the world, I mean that is coming from this new British empire like the Iraq war for example..."|archive-url=https://youtu.be/yOIzZCnpXaY?t=9975|archive-date=2022-07-20}}</ref> and taking a heavily unorthodox approach to disseminating ideology, most commonly adopting esoteric jargon like "mecha-[[Tankie|tankies]]" and "[[Stalinism|Stalinist]] Futurism" to distinguish themselves and their positions from what they consider to be the "[[Baizuo]]" and the "synthetic left."<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=Youtube|title=Rise of the Mecha-Tankies|date=2022-7-19|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPojH2KtLks|retrieved=2022-7-20|quote=[From video description] Mecha-Tankies are finally taking form as the ultimate Infrared hyperstition, which was the original intention of the collective from the very beginning.  In today's stream, I will briefly explain and go over my recent article 'on the PatSoc' split to better explain what Mecha-Tankies are, the threat posed by social-democracy, and the recent controversy surrounding productive and unproductive labor.}}</ref>
-=== Hostility to planned economies ===
-Haz views [[Mao Zedong|Mao Zedong's]] collaboration with the capitalist-imperialist [[United States of America]] during the 1970's as a positive thing. He furthermore is highly critical of the Soviet [[planned economy]] (however, he also claims that the [[People's Republic of China]] is still presently a planned economy, a claim he fails to support with reliable sources).
-=== Reformism ===
-Haz, during an online debate, claimed that attempting to establish a [[Dictatorship of the proletariat|proletarian dictatorship]] via a [[Revolution|revolutionary action]] was inherently false and undesirable for the simple fact that it is not legal according to a [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie|bourgeois government's]] own laws. He further claimed:<blockquote>"Here's what you tell the people: You tell the people [that] you follow the laws, and ''if'' they, the government [of the [[United States of America]]] starts violating its own laws <ref group="note">Ignoring that the government of the United States of America has, ever since it existed, violated it own legal code, via its many genocides, acts of war, exploitation, mass imprisonment of ethic minorites, ect.</ref> and effectively collapses at that point, our [[Liberalism|bourgeois democracy]] collapses, then, as our Founding Fathers<ref group="note">In the context of [[Statesian]] ultranationalist parlance, the "founding fathers" refers to a group of wealthy slave owners and plutocrats who staged a [[Bourgeois revolution]] which created the United States of America.</ref> told us, you have a right to [use revolutionary action]."<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Youtube|title=Haz vs Jason Unruhe {{!}} InfraredShow Debate|date=2021-9-25|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3SGniPMH4&t=4795s|retrieved=2022-8-7}}</ref></blockquote>Infrared, in a video, actively endorsed a USA Senate Candidate by the name of Diane Sare, a [[reactionary]], [[Christianity|christian]], and [[Nationalism|nationalist]] figure. The justification for this  blatant [[Opportunism|right-opportunist]] support for [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois-liberals]] being that this Senate Candidate was "[[Austerity|rescuing the decaying American economy]]" and "promoting peace & cooperation with [[Russian Federation|Russia]] and [[China]]".<ref>{{Web citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=Youtube|title=Interview With US Senate Candidate Diane Sare|date=2022-8-9|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsL6Bf_Ekgo|retrieved=2022-8-10|quote=''[from video description]'' Diane Sare is running as an independent on the New York November 8th, 2022 midterm ballot running for US Senate. She hopes to take on the two-party duopoly and create a workable platform for rescuing the decaying American economy and promoting peace & cooperation with Russia and China.}}</ref>
-=== Settler colonialism ===
-Haz rejected indigenous claims to U.S. land and said there was no dispute for U.S. territory between [[Settler colonialism|settlers]] and indigenous peoples.<ref>{{Web citation|author=@InfraHaz|newspaper=Twitter|title=Thread|date=2021-09-09|url=https://twitter.com/InfraHaz/status/1436086573385371649?s=20|quote=Saying America is "Occupied Indigenous Land" is like saying America is "Occupied CHAZ Land." You can't just claim land on the basis of morality and then call it occupied. America isn't, as a whole, disputed territory in any meaningful political sense. Beyond your own morality.}}</ref>
-== Slogans and hastags ==
-=== ''#CPUSA 2036'' ===
-The Infrared community has popularized the [[Twitter]] hashtag and internet meme [[CPUSA 2036]] which describes their aim to take control of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America|CPUSA]], remove its [[Liberal]] component, and win in the 2036 presidential election.<ref>[https://future.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000244029 "What is Communist Party 2036?" on Fandom]</ref>
-=== ''#MAGACommunism'' ===
+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.
-''see main article: [[MAGACommunism]]''
-"MAGACommunism" is a [[Tailism|tailist]] internet slogan commonly promoted by Infrared and other Patriotic socialists. It calls for the political and ideological unification with the highly [[Anti-communist]] and [[reactionary]] [[Trumpism|Trumpist]] movement, which is viewed by Infrared as being, falsely, a "working-class movement" which could aid in defeating the "globalist beast."<ref>{{Web citation|author=Haz Al-Din|newspaper=[[Infrared]]|title=THE RISE OF MAGA COMMUNISM|date=2022-9-18|url=https://showinfrared.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-maga-communism?sd=pf|retrieved=2022-9-22}}</ref>
+The infrared collective came up with the idea of [[Anglo Box]], which refers to a way of thinking, mostly related to English philosophy, that consists in the reduction of the meaning of words to a fixed form, like a dictionary definition, which leads to the dogmatic thinking of [[BreadTube|BreadTubers]] like [[Vaush]]. This kind of philosophical illness is directly opposed to the dialectical method of [[Karl Marx|Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and the other prominent marxist-leninist thinkers. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGIdrXAGyw&t=140s Vaush knows NOTHING about socialism] - youtube</ref>
-==See also==
+Following the assassination of [[Daria Dugina]], Haz delivered a video essay explaining the ideology of Dugin, defending his legacy against accusations of being a "fascist" as he's described by the Western corporate media and the [[Synthetic Left]].<ref>''[https://youtu.be/bXjkJrk7y98 Aleksandr Dugin: The Most Misunderstood Man in the World]'' by [[Infrared]]
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=0s 00:00] INTRODUCTION
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=38s 00:38] I. WHO IS [[Alexander Reid-Ross|ALEXANDER REID-ROSS]]?
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=253s 04:13] II. "PALINGENETIC ULTRA-NATIONALISM"
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=1046s 17:26] III. DUGIN & EUROPEAN NEW RIGHT
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=1101s 18:21] IV. GERMAN KONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=1231s 20:31] V. TRADITIONALISM
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=1535s 25:35] VI. "FASCISM: BORDERLESS & RED"
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=1952s 32:32] VII. FOURTH POLITICAL THEORY
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=2078s 34:38] VIII. DUGIN'S ANTI-FASCISM
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=2304s 38:24] IX.  LIBERAL RACISM AGAINST DUGIN
+[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjkJrk7y98&t=2401s 40:01] EPILOGUE </ref>
-*[[Caleb Maupin]]
+Questions of philosophy are also covered by Infrared streams.<ref>[https://youtu.be/popXwMK0x48 Infrared Snapshots #20 | From Plato To NATO] by [[Beyond Liberalism]] on [[YouTube]]</ref>
-*[[Alexander Dugin]]
-*[[National Bolshevism]]
-==Notes==
+Infrared has interviewed [[Grover Furr]], the author of ''Khrushchev Lied.''<ref>[https://youtu.be/XcJpWNZngYg The Lies We're Told About Stalin ft. Grover Furr] by [[Haz]] of [[Infrared]]</ref>
-<references group="note" />
+== Videos ==
-==References==
+Most of Infrared's content is video-based. It's been recommended that others download the longer videos to clip them into shorter, easier to share clips.
-<references />
+=== Official ===
-[[Category:Reactionaries]]
+* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl63ZOm_bepvwoKjw24rogA YouTube]
-[[Category:YouTube channels]]
+* Twitch (suspended)
+=== VODs (unofficial) ===
+* [[Talonsight]] ([https://www.youtube.com/c/Talonsight YouTube])
+* [[Black Lenin]] ([https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackLenin YouTube])
+* [[Infrared VODs]] ([https://www.youtube.com/c/InfraredVODs YouTube], [https://odysee.com/@infraredvods:5 Odysee])
+* [https://archive.org/details/@jawazan Archive.org]
+* carl_markus ([https://www.tiktok.com/@carl_markus TikTok])
+* hazalghul ([https://www.tiktok.com/@hazalghul?_t=8X6kAEe6Pyo&_r=1 TikTok])
+* [[Voidbourn|voidbourn_igg]] ([https://youtube.com/channel/UCHglN6_K0KNC2JXjvo16kjQ YouTube], [https://www.tiktok.com/@voidbourn_igg?_t=8X6kDgXRIJG&_r=1 TikTok])
+* igg_clips ([https://www.tiktok.com/@igg_clips?_t=8X6kEvGUWY2&_r=1 TikTok])
+== Links ==
+* [https://www.patreon.com/InfraredMedia Patreon]
+* [https://www.infrared.gg Website]
+* [https://www.reddit.com/r/showinfrared Reddit]
+* [https://showinfrared.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile Substack]
+* [https://t.me/+Vv9KQleHo9xjMGMx Telegram]
+* [https://www.donationalerts.com/r/infrared Donate]
+* [https://archive.org/details/infrared-vods Archived VODs]
+== Further reading ==
+* [https://rtsg.fandom.com/wiki/Infrared Infrared on RTSG Wiki]
+== References ==