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what does Caleb Maupin--the widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist and political analyst--have to say about this?
He's actually on bad terms with Infrared last I heard lol
Yeah, the Infrared crowd hates Maupin because they see him as an old fuddy-duddy who (gasp) wanted them to do real stuff in the real world, and not just be edgy online. Maupin dislikes them because (1) they rip off his ideas without attribution, and (2) they went whole hog on the "recruit from the right" thing in the dumbest way possible. And when I say dumb, I mean really dumb: as in "talk about Hegel in front an American flag bikini poster" dumb. Yes, Haz actually did this.
Basically, the way that whole sphere works is: Maupin says something that's wrongheaded, but somewhat thought out; Haz presents it a few days later as his own, mixed with some dumbass Ned Land/Dugin/Larouche stuff; then Jackson Hinkle, Midwestern Marx, Sameera Khan, and other assorted intellectual lightweights spread it all over the internet in the form of lazy AI-generated memes. With each step the original idea gets stupider, with @REVMAXXING being the absolute nadir.
That I thought for a long time that whole crowd could reform and become principled Marxists is one of the worst blunders I've made.
EDIT: for instance, look at this not-very-original piece of analysis. I think my dog could come up with something about as profound, and I don't even have a dog. Face of modern communism, anybody?
Wasn't he hanging out with the Moonies fairly recently?
Yep. At first he didn't even name them, just called them a "pro-unification church", and now he doesn't care anymore and namedrops them any chance he gets.