Editing Infrared

{{Infobox youtuber|name=Infrared|Ideology=[[Patriotic socialism]]<br>
* [[Marxism-Leninism]] (nominally)
* [[MAGA communism]]
* [[Nationalism|Bourgeois nationalism]]
* [[Reactionary|Chauvinism]]
* [[Anti-intellectualism]]
* [[Fascism|Cryptofascism]]
* [[Fourth Political Theory|Duginism]]
* [[Settler colonialism]]
|logo=Infrared channel logo.png|nationality=[[Statesian]]|website=[https://www.infrared.gg/ INFRARED]|years_active=2020–present|subscribers=23,000|views=2,330,000|associated_acts=[[Jackson Hinkle|''The Dive'']]<br>|stats_update=19 March 2023|pseudonym=Haz Al-Din}}

'''Infrared''' is a media collective led by '''Adam Tahir''' (also known as '''Haz Al-Din'''), a self-described [[Marxist-Leninist]] 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 Marxist-Leninist symbols, [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] [[populism]], esotericism<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=YouTube|title=What Infrared Is All About|date=2022-07-13|url=https://youtu.be/jwyqM8VcHR0}}</ref> and [[reactionary]] [[chauvinism]]<ref>[https://twitter.com/materialistgril/status/1664441364216438784 video wherein Haz Al-Din repeatedly uses homophobic and ableist slurs, and refers to Luna Oi as "the white man's whore"] </ref>.
== Content ==
The Infrared Collective is dominated by Haz. Their youtube channel largely contains entire livestreams, mostly of 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-grabbing pictures.<ref>{{News citation|author=Infrared|newspaper=Youtube|url=https://www.youtube.com/c/InfraredShow/videos|retrieved=2022-7-28}}</ref>

In October 2022, following [[ProleWiki]]'s purge of patsocs, the Infrared community started [[InfraWiki]] to promote MAGA communism and patriotic socialism.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=InfraWiki|title=InfraWiki|date=2022-11-21|url=https://infrawiki.us/index.php/InfraWiki|retrieved=2022-11-25}}</ref>

== 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> On a Twitch stream, he claimed the United States is already a [[Socialism|socialist]] country.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=InfraWiki|title="We already live in socialism"|url=https://infrawiki.us/index.php/%27%27We_already_live_in_socialism%27%27|retrieved=2022-11-26|quote=''We already live in socialism'' is a phrase used by Infrared to signify that the process of achieving socialism has already begun. The phrase was first introduced during a Twitch stream discussing the controversial tweet by Haz on the matter.}}</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 [[United States of America]] during the 1970s as a positive thing. He furthermore is highly critical of the Soviet [[planned economy]].

=== 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 ethnic minorities, etc.</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]] [[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 U.S. 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> He believes the United States was not originally an empire and that the British forced the U.S. to become imperialist.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp3SGniPMH4&t=4097s|channel=Black Lenin|title=Haz vs Jason Unruhe {{!}} InfraredShow Debate|quote=[The United States] has become [an empire], also because we have allowed the British intelligence to conquer our country. Well, the British ruling class conquered our deep state and our country and became our ruling class, so yeah, we became an empire. But that's not how the republic was founded.}}</ref>

== Slogans and hashtags ==

=== ''#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]] components (or, in other words, turn it into their patriotic socialist pet project), and win in the 2036 presidential election.<ref>[https://future.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000244029 "What is Communist Party 2036?" on Fandom]</ref>

=== ''#MAGACommunism'' ===
{{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 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>

==See also==

*[[Aleksandr Dugin|Alexander Dugin]]
*[[Lyndon LaRouche]]
*[[Caleb Maupin]]
*[[Pol Pot]]
*[[National Bolshevism]]

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