Nazi-Maoism
Nazi-Maoism — the 1960s-70s European current (Jean Thiriart, Franco Freda; Terza Posizione, Lutte du Peuple) that fused far-right nationalism with borrowed Maoist rhetoric — appears in Infrared discourse as the cautionary precedent for any red-brown synthesis.
The historical current
- Thiriart's "Europe from Vladivostok to Dublin," Freda's "disruptive" tactics: anti-American, anti-Soviet, anti-Zionist nationalism adopting Third Worldist guerrilla language ("use so-called leftist terminology, provided you modify its meaning").
- The result: no class content, no workers' organization — nationalism with Maoist aesthetics, collapsing into terrorism or marginal cults.
Infrared's relation
MAGA Communism is repeatedly accused of being this. The distinction Haz insists on:
- Nazi-Maoism borrowed leftist terminology while modifying its meaning; Infrared insists on the actual Marxist content — value theory, class analysis, the party (Tendency of the rate of profit to fall, Class).
- Nazi-Maoism's nation was racial; Infrared's is political-civilizational, multiethnic by composition (Keith Woods rivalry marks exactly this boundary).
- The test is organizational: who does the movement organize, and against whom? Workers as a class against finance-capital — or natives against strangers?
The precedent is studied seriously precisely because the temptation it represents is real: patriotism without class analysis always finds its Feder (Gottfried Feder, Strasserism).