| Infrared | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Personal information | |
| Nationality | Statesian |
| Website | INFRARED |
| YouTube information | |
| Also known as | Haz Al-Din |
| Years active | 2020–present |
| Subscribers | 23,000 |
| Total views | 2,330,000 |
| Associated acts | The Dive |
| Ideology | Patriotic socialism |
Last updated: 19 March 2023 | |
Infrared is a media collective led by Adam Tahir (also known as Haz Al-Din), a self-described Marxist-Leninist and "patriotic socialist" based in Detroit, Michigan, USA. As of 2022, the channel has about 20,000 subscribers and over 2,000,000 views.[1] His community is based on a mixture of Marxist-Leninist symbols, right-wing populism, esotericism[2] and reactionary chauvinism[3].
Content
The Infrared collective is dominated by Haz, in regards to their content. 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.[4]
In October 2022, following ProleWiki's purge of patsocs, the Infrared community started InfraWiki to promote MAGA communism and patriotic socialism.[5]
Distortion of Marxism
Haz described feudal countries including the Ottoman Empire, Tsardom of Russia, and Qing dynasty as examples of "actual socialism."[6] On a Twitch stream, he claimed the United States is already a socialist country.[7]
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 empire in the aftermath of WWII, when British capital was used to subvert the American republic through transnational and unconstitutional institutions,[8] and taking a heavily unorthodox approach to disseminating ideology, most commonly adopting esoteric jargon like "mecha-tankies" and "Stalinist Futurism" to distinguish themselves and their positions from what they consider to be the "Baizuo" and the "synthetic left."[9]
Hostility to planned economies
Haz views 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 proletarian dictatorship via a revolutionary action was inherently false and undesirable for the simple fact that it is not legal according to a bourgeois government's own laws. He further claimed:
"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 [note 1] and effectively collapses at that point, our bourgeois democracy collapses, then, as our Founding Fathers[note 2] told us, you have a right to [use revolutionary action]."[10]
Infrared, in a video, actively endorsed a USA Senate Candidate by the name of Diane Sare, a reactionary Christian nationalist figure. The justification for this blatant right-opportunist support for bourgeois-liberals being that this Senate Candidate was "rescuing the decaying U.S. economy" and "promoting peace & cooperation with Russia and China".[11]
Settler colonialism
Haz rejected indigenous claims to U.S. land and said there was no dispute for U.S. territory between settlers and indigenous peoples.[12] He believes the United States was not originally an empire and that the British forced the U.S. to become imperialist.[13]
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 CPUSA, remove its liberal components (or, in other words, turn it into their patriotic socialist pet project), and win in the 2036 presidential election.[14]
#MAGACommunism
See main article: MAGACommunism
"MAGACommunism" is a 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 Trumpist movement, which is viewed by Infrared as being a "working-class movement" which could aid in defeating the "globalist beast."[15]
See also
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
References
- ↑ Infrared. "About" Youtube. Retrieved 2022-7-12.
- ↑ Infrared (2022-07-13). "What Infrared Is All About" YouTube.
- ↑ video wherein Haz Al-Din repeatedly uses homophobic and ableist slurs, and refers to Luna Oi as "the white man's whore"
- ↑ Infrared. Youtube. Retrieved 2022-7-28.
- ↑ "InfraWiki" (2022-11-21). InfraWiki. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ @InfraHaz (2022-01-10). "Example of Actual Socialism:" Twitter. Archived from the original on 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
- ↑ “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.”
""We already live in socialism"". InfraWiki. Retrieved 2022-11-26. - ↑ “"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..."”
Infrared (2022-07-04). "In Defense of the American Revolution" Youtube. Archived from the original on 2022-07-20. Retrieved 2022-07-20. - ↑ “[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.”
Infrared (2022-7-19). "Rise of the Mecha-Tankies" Youtube. Retrieved 2022-7-20. - ↑ "Haz vs Jason Unruhe | InfraredShow Debate" (2021-9-25). Youtube. Retrieved 2022-8-7.
- ↑ “[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.”
Infrared (2022-8-9). "Interview With US Senate Candidate Diane Sare" Youtube. Retrieved 2022-8-10. - ↑ “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.”
@InfraHaz (2021-09-09). "Thread" Twitter. - ↑ “[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.”
Black Lenin. "Haz vs Jason Unruhe | InfraredShow Debate". YouTube. - ↑ "What is Communist Party 2036?" on Fandom
- ↑ Haz Al-Din (2022-9-18). "THE RISE OF MAGA COMMUNISM" Infrared. Retrieved 2022-9-22.