Dude I actually listened to a “””lecture””” of his recently for the first time. It’s a long story but that ACP type crap is spreading where I live and me and a comrade watched it to sort of mock it… and it was so much worse than I expected.
It was just 40 minutes of absolutely delusional rambling. How anyone with any iota of understanding of Marx could think this guy is a historical materialist is absolutely wild to me. I could generously call it a reeeeally confused Hegelianism, like if someone read a bit of hegel and really didn’t understand it at all. It was pure idealism.
He was going on about the “steppe-civilisation dialectic” and how “tartaria is not a physical place, tartaria is the source of dark marxism, the realisation of the steppe-civilisation dialectic”. Just absolute word salad. Like someone put some vaguely Hegelian sounding words on a wheel of fortune and made a sentence out of various spin results. It was utterly bizarre.
I already thought these people were complete morons for following this guy, but I came out of the experience confused how even the most impressionable person could buy into it. It’s not even slightly impressive in a rhetorical or theoretical sense. It doesn’t even seem like something a smart person would say to trick people. It was genuine ramblings of a madman type stuff.
Consider as a point of comparison that Candace Owens is somewhat more popular and seems to be sincerely arguing for the existence of time travel and Kirk having a special soul that caused electrical interference.
i love the “kirks special soul made lights flicker when he was around” thing cuz in media “lights flicker when this person is around” usually means its a demon or monster lol
I think I see what’s going on there. Not in an ideologically coherent way, rather that the language aesthetics are giving vibes. Like someone smashed together vaguely Marxist jargon with Peterson’s style in order to appeal to the same sort of person that buys into Peterson’s nonsense.
My thoughts exactly - people who never find materialism and are just utterly drowning in western abstractions can definitely glom onto this type of pseudo-intellectual shit.
imo Haz and the Midwestern Marx guys are true believers just stupid (though I’ve heard Haz is now on some Russian billionaires payroll), but Jackson Hinkle is definitely 110% a fed
Nope, it was Haz (EDIT: More specifically the video was just advertising “Infrared”). I do remember his early videos and the content itself was shit, but there was a promo video before that even that I saw someone post to reddit that looked professionally edited. I can’t seem to find it now, but I do remember it pretty clearly.
“Carlos Garrido provides a clear outline of the main currents, both intellectual and historical, driving the new synthesis of American Marxism which is taking an entire generation by storm.”
HAZ AL-DIN, philosopher, Infrared Collective
Also pretty sure a lot (or maybe most) of it is fedposting.
I remember when “Infrared” (Haz) first started on YouTube and it seemed way too polished to not be some kind of op.
Dude I actually listened to a “””lecture””” of his recently for the first time. It’s a long story but that ACP type crap is spreading where I live and me and a comrade watched it to sort of mock it… and it was so much worse than I expected.
It was just 40 minutes of absolutely delusional rambling. How anyone with any iota of understanding of Marx could think this guy is a historical materialist is absolutely wild to me. I could generously call it a reeeeally confused Hegelianism, like if someone read a bit of hegel and really didn’t understand it at all. It was pure idealism.
He was going on about the “steppe-civilisation dialectic” and how “tartaria is not a physical place, tartaria is the source of dark marxism, the realisation of the steppe-civilisation dialectic”. Just absolute word salad. Like someone put some vaguely Hegelian sounding words on a wheel of fortune and made a sentence out of various spin results. It was utterly bizarre.
I already thought these people were complete morons for following this guy, but I came out of the experience confused how even the most impressionable person could buy into it. It’s not even slightly impressive in a rhetorical or theoretical sense. It doesn’t even seem like something a smart person would say to trick people. It was genuine ramblings of a madman type stuff.
Consider as a point of comparison that Candace Owens is somewhat more popular and seems to be sincerely arguing for the existence of time travel and Kirk having a special soul that caused electrical interference.
i love the “kirks special soul made lights flicker when he was around” thing cuz in media “lights flicker when this person is around” usually means its a demon or monster lol
Lets not inflate the ACP. Candace Owens is a hundred times more popular than everyone from ACP combined.
I think I see what’s going on there. Not in an ideologically coherent way, rather that the language aesthetics are giving
vibes. Like someone smashed together vaguely Marxist jargon with Peterson’s style in order to appeal to the same sort of person that buys into Peterson’s nonsense.
My thoughts exactly - people who never find materialism and are just utterly drowning in western abstractions can definitely glom onto this type of pseudo-intellectual shit.
It tastes literary criticism flavored.
imo Haz and the Midwestern Marx guys are true believers just stupid (though I’ve heard Haz is now on some Russian billionaires payroll), but Jackson Hinkle is definitely 110% a fed
You must be thinking of Hinkle? The stuff Haz put out in the beginning was, uhh, the complete opposite of polished lmao
Nope, it was Haz (EDIT: More specifically the video was just advertising “Infrared”). I do remember his early videos and the content itself was shit, but there was a promo video before that even that I saw someone post to reddit that looked professionally edited. I can’t seem to find it now, but I do remember it pretty clearly.
https://midwesternmarxpublishingpress.sellfy.store/p/carlos-l-garrido-why-we-need-american-marxism/
“”””philospher”””
Feels like more of a derogative anyway.