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However in terms of the underlying philosophical and cultural outlook, political strategy, and basic ideological orientation, Infrared is fundamentally different from the LaRouche movement. | However in terms of the underlying philosophical and cultural outlook, political strategy, and basic ideological orientation, Infrared is fundamentally different from the LaRouche movement. | ||
In spite of the broad critique of the New Left, Infrared does not take a one-sided view in broadly condemning this historical event. It relates the emergence of the New Left to the rise of the Information age, precipitating the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As such, there is a great deal to learn, according to Infrared, from the New Left - especially organizations like the Black Panthers. | |||
Rather than avoid the cultural turn all-together in favor of immediately returning back to the working class, Infrared views cultural mediation as an irreversible inevitability, and as such, draws heavily from Gramsci and his notion of the 'relative autonomy of the superstructure with regard to the base.' | |||
Additionally, one of the main focuses of Infrared, theoretically, is the question of the origin and essence of state power, civilization-states and polarity. On these questions, there is a sharp divergence between Infrared and Schiller. | |||
Infrared promotes the study of the meaning of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the contemporary age. LaRouche, for his part, was hostile to such a notion. | Infrared promotes the study of the meaning of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in the contemporary age. LaRouche, for his part, was hostile to such a notion. |