Infrared, officially The Infrared Collective, is a media collective and internet community whose main representative is currently the livestreamer Haz. Its main output is the Infrared Show, which has been censored by Twitch but is still available on YouTube and Kick.
The main stated purpose of Infrared as a media collective is the promotion of the study of Marxism-Leninism in the age of multi-polarity and the post-COVID world.
Marxism-Leninism in the Age of Multi-Polarity and the Post-COVID World
The main thesis of Infrared is that there has been a major translation error in communicating the experiences of 20th century Communist history to Western leftists. Beginning with the October revolution, Western thought has failed to appreciate the significance of Communism as a real and objective historical phenomena, rather than a mere theory or idea.
According to Infrared, this reflects a historical antithesis between Western and non-Western societies, which has deep historical origins. The main contention Infrared has with all hitherto importations of Marxism-Leninism in Western contexts is that Marxism-Leninism was reduced to an ideological doctrine, rather than an index of objective historical experiences to be applied practically.
The most pressing issue facing Western Communists is to confront the failure of Marxism-Leninism to be successfully synthesized in the Western context. To that end, Infrared draws from a diverse array of thinkers in order to help clarify the true nature of the 'translation error.'
The significance of these thinkers lies not in following their questionable political commitments, as in the case of Heidegger, but studying the various ways they attempted to (and failed) to grasp the unique challenges facing Western thinking as a whole.
According to Infrared, the theoretical contributions of Marxist-Leninist statesmen and thinkers, regarded by Western academics and vogue 'Marxians' as simplistic and vulgar, represent an integral historical brilliance, genius, and wisdom that only the most advanced conceptual apparatuses available to the Western mind can properly comprehend.
With the rise of multipolarity and the end of 500 years of Western hegemony, a comprehensive re-examination of the basic assumptions of Western thinking and the way this thinking has obscured the study of Marxism-Leninism is necessary. Additionally, with the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and what certainly appears to be the transition into a new mode of production, Marxism-Leninism must ultimately be re-synthesized in a way that fully appreciates a now uncharted new historical era.
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.
Infrared coined the term Anglo Box, which refers to a way of thinking, relating to English philosophy, consisting of 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 Western leftists.[2]
Questions of philosophy are also covered by Infrared streams.[3]
Infrared has interviewed Grover Furr, the author of Khrushchev Lied.[4]
Links
Official Links
- Infrared Website
- Substack
- Kick (Livestreams)
- YouTube
- Rumble
- Telegram
- Tiktok
- Telegram Chat
- Discord
- Patreon
- DonationAlerts
- Twitch (banned)
- Streamlabs (banned)
- StreamElements (banned)
VODs
- Infrared VODs (Twitch VODs) (YouTube, Archive)
- infrared-vods (Youtube VODs) (YouTube, Archive)
- Infrared Archive (Kick VODs) (Rumble)
- "Haz Al-Din" (YouTube)
- Search the catalog of Infrared video transcripts ([1])
Clips (unofficial)
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
- ↑ 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