I'VE RETURNED. | SOVINTERN

What's up, everyone?

Comrade Thomas with the ten, what's up, bro?

Appreciate you.

With the five, what's up, bro?

Comrade Ked, appreciate you, brother.

Base populace, what's up, man?

Let's get the energy turn up in here, let's get a Sun Gorilla March, what the fuck is this?

Let's get the energy up.

I'll explain.

I'll explain.

Don't worry.

A lot I can explain.

Orvo, what's up, bro?

How you doing?

Well, I didn't give you all much of a head notice for this shit.

Uh, to be fair, you know, I said one hour before the stream, I'm like, yo, we're back.

Actually, I wasn't planning on streaming tonight.

I was planning on streaming tomorrow, okay?

But we're here.

And fuck, it's like it feels like it's been years.

Uh, I'm gonna try to keep the cursing.

I don't give a fuck.

By the way, hold on, let's calm down.

All right.

Uh, I got there's a lot, there's a lot we got to catch up on.

The first thing I want to do is make an excuse for why I've been gone for so long.

And I want to talk about that.

I've been in Moscow since

I left Friday.

I left Moscow Friday.

And then I went to New York for a rally for May ninth at the New with the New York chapter and with the Russian community there.

We had a run in with some Ukraine people, I don't fucking know.

They were very much outnumbered by us.

And we at A C P people were having a fun time trolling them.

Uh I remember it like it was yesterday because it it was yesterday.

Anyway, uh we did that's what I've been up to and then I came back home.

I I was supposed to actually get home later tonight, but I changed my flight to come home earlier.

And then, you know, I couldn't go to the gym.

And I was like, okay, I'm just going to stream tonight.

I was going to stream tomorrow, Monday, but Monday's not even a typical time in which I stream.

So, you know, I could have hyped up the stream more.

I could have given you more of a notice.

I could have told you, yo, I'm going to be back.

But.

Do we need the theatrics?

Do we need the cerep the needless ceremony?

No, let's just get back into it.

Okay, we're getting back on schedule.

Starting now, you know?

So, but let me give you an explain to you why I've been gone.

First of all, so I was in Moscow from the 24th.

Until th Friday, recent Friday and um I was there for the Sovin Turn conference, which there ha I've I've known about okay first time I went to Moscow this year I don't know if you saw the photo of me in Galloway inside the Kremlin, I was there in February, right?

The reason I was in Moscow in February was actually to discuss and prepare for Soventern.

Uh, you know, the ACP has a very notable presence as one of the founding parties of Soventurn.

And I went to Moscow to discuss with them, you know, how we want this whole thing to go down.

There was not a huge window of time for the planning and preparation that went into it between then and April.

But finally, I'm glad I can talk about it because I wasn't able to talk about it actually.

And don't worry, I'm going to get into it.

I'm going to answer all your questions.

Yada yada yada.

But I was principally in Russia for Soventern.

Now, Soventurn ended the whole event.

With all the itinerary and everything.

It ended Wednesday, okay?

And originally, my plan was.

that I was gonna stay from Wednesday till Monday

Um, to basically, you know, we had the EB there so the EB could meet together, hang out together, see Jackson, you know, catch up, plan.

We're in person.

Whenever we're in person, great things happen, you know, like ACP was expedited because we all met in person, you know, at our the famous founding the golf course.

People think it's a golf course, it's not.

So we wanted it to be productive.

We also wanted, you know, Jackson is my friend.

He's my best friend.

I wanted to hang out with Jackson as well.

So did everyone else.

And get to know him.

And Jackson hasn't had a lot of time to meet the ACP leaders in person, actually.

I'm the only one who's had personal contact with Jackson.

So we wanted to stay a little extra till Monday.

And then and then um

We basically decided that we wanted to just go from Moscow to New York for the New York event.

Instead of me coming back home,

And uh, you know, then getting a pl plane ticket to New York, we just will change our tickets from Moscow to New York directly, which we thought would have, you know, would would save us money, it would save us yada yada, but also would make it impossible for me to stream, right?

So I you know, I took a what what what should have been a week long hiatus turned into a two week hiatus in terms of streaming.

And first thing I want to say is I'm extremely happy and I'm extremely impressed with the community in terms of how you've handled that.

I'm really impressed.

I am so proud of this community.

I have to say that.

Every time I've been gone, every time I haven't streamed, you know, for a week or something, there's always some crazy fucking bullshit that happens in the community, right?

But finally, I feel like this community is at the point where it's locked in.

You guys have an understanding that this is a fucking movement.

And it's like, I am so proud of what's been going on in my absence.

Um

Like I don't want to get too much into it now, but we are planning there's a lot of plans that are in motion that are being implemented with the creation of a of our own media ecosystem for introductory educational content.

I'm seeing a video essay by one of the members of the community just go viral.

The video essay initiative is taking off and launching.

By the way, RTSG is launching their own Friday.

It's actually inspired me to get into making an infrared vision video essay, which I think I could do based on the writing that I did.

Another thing I want to talk about.

It's inspiring me.

I want to get back into the infrared vision videos, right?

And the community just had this shit on lock.

You guys have been holding the line in the way that really reflects a movement, you know?

So I'm very proud of how you guys have been able to handle my absence, first of all.

That's the first time this has ever happened.

And it's just like the thing that I've always dreamed of is happening.

Which is that this movement was always something exclusive.

I was never a mass streamer, public facing, outward facing for everyone.

I've never been that.

But the whole purpose of this cult was to cultivate leaders, discourse leaders, idea leaders, you know, influencers, yada, yada, yada.

And slowly but surely, you guys are being brought up and you're acquiring personalities and faces of your own.

And you're starting to actually tap into a mass appeal that only a movement could do collectively, not one person.

If I personally wanted to just go viral myself, I would have leapfrogged off of existing influencers and climbed my way to the top.

Which is what everyone does.

You make friends with existing streamer net.

I didn't want to integrate into existing networks.

I wanted to help be part of the process where we're going to create our own network, which is what we've actually been doing.

We're creating our own media ecosystem and influencer network, right?

Which is ours and ours alone.

It's so fucking cool.

It's actually so fucking cool.

It's like me, Infrared, Jackson, obviously he's been there from the start, but now we have Midwestern Marks, but now it's RTSG.

Now it's other video essayists.

Now other people are rising on X.

I'm always seeing our people going viral independently.

You guys are.

Our influence is so immense and it's crazy.

Like the whole discourse is bending to us.

Frankly.

Easy, what's up?

Um.

The new meme of like the Ivan Drago edits or whatever, like this is just infrared 2021 stuff now getting mainstream appeal on the left.

And then meanwhile, you know

It's straight up infrared 2021 aesthetic and vibe, whatever you want to call it.

Uh it's just like temperament, I guess, attitude, sensibility, whatever you want to call it.

It's been taking off for the whole left.

You guys are really becoming major

A major influence on the left internationally.

I want you guys to know that.

This movement is becoming a bulwark.

With respect to the new

Controversy with Hassan Piker and the Democrats, which I am going to get into in this stream comprehensively.

ACP is at the Vanguard.

Everyone understands intuitively.

Everyone understands, Amila.

By the way, I'm giving you an introduction to today's stream, the return stream.

Young Soby, what's up?

Everyone.

Everyone understands that ACP is the alternative to Hassan Piker's strategy.

If there was no ACP, then the only strategy would be Hassan Piker's.

Frankly, I don't have to tell you that, frankly.

All these adventurous and radical ultras and stuff, they have no solutions.

We have an actual alternative strategy, and we're being recognized as such.

Sigma, what's up?

Oh, you guys are lagging.

Who's lagging?

One's if we're good.

Ones if we're good.

Okay, we're good.

I don't want to hear about nonsense.

Anyway, this is just an introduction, by the way.

Just an introduction.

And then um

Another th another reason I decided to kind of give myself a vacation

And I'm going to be honest: the second week that I was in Moscow after Sovintern was just us enjoying Moscow, you know, sightseeing.

And yeah, every yeah, pretty much every night we're having discussions and planning and talking and stuff.

We're all together as leadership.

Diogenes, what's up?

But in terms of like critical stuff, it was pretty relaxed.

And the reason I gave myself that vacation.

Teepos.

By the way, an unpaid vacation.

The reason I gave it to myself was because I decided to pat myself on the back a little bit, just a tiny bit, because I worked very hard, and Christian also worked very hard in terms of getting it on the website, making that response to Geese magazine.

Originally, I thought I would make a 10,000-word response.

From the plane from Detroit to Moscow, which was about a total of 24 hours or something, including the layover, I non-stop worked on that piece.

I didn't eat at all.

The Turkish Airlines, they serve you meals.

I said, no, no, thank you.

I had my laptop out.

I was just typing away.

I ended up producing about 18,000 words.

And then from that to the release of the whole thing, I would add on to it pretty much every day that I was in Moscow.

It got to a total of like 32, 33,000 words.

Just kind of like a mini book, right?

Orbital, what's up?

Small book length piece.

Um

And once I was like, you know what?

I'm going to take a break from the streaming a little bit.

I want people to actually digest this and read it and take it seriously and draw conclusions from it.

I am kind of not too surprised.

I'm a little disappointed by the fact that I don't really feel like people are talking about

That work or anything written in it, or the some of the ideas it proposes, or the the angle it's working with.

But that's okay.

I don't I understand it's hard.

The attention span of this generation is just not capable of synthesizing things directly from text, and I get that.

It has to be turned into like that's why I want to use some of it as a template for a video essay, actually.

But I I think there are very important ideas expressed there, right?

Elid, what's up, bro?

Thank you so much.

Appreciate you.

Thank you so much.

Um and uh regarding the geese people, I was glad to have been given the opportunity to write this, which I would have no other context to do.

Dark, what's up?

The fact that I was able to pump out thirty K words in a few days, one day really.

Basically, did motivate me to just get back on finishing that first book I want to get out, which I'm going to do probably within the next few months.

It's not going to be hard.

I just have to balance like the you know manic writing style, which is Rise of MAGA Communism, my sub stacks, the geese magazine.

That's kind of like my manic writing style.

The book writings that I'm working on, they're very much not manic, they're very much meticulous, they're very much like crafty, they're very well thought out.

Every word I use is very, you know, specific.

And so I need to find a balance between the two because one of them takes too long and this one takes very quick, you know, but it's just the lucidity is not the best for some people.

It's very hard for them to get it.

Also, I would say the most important part of communism in the post-MAGA age, which is what it's called, is when The Iron Became Hot.

The most important chapter by far, The Iron Became Hot.

I'm probably going to make a video essay just based on that one alone.

And let me find the exact, yeah, it's number two.

Okay, 02.

So chapter 2, The Iron Became Hot.

It's the most important passage.

It's not even that long, actually, but it is like critical.

I'm going to make a video essay using that as a template for sure.

Obviously chapter one is important.

I talk about the relationship between the offline, the online world, the internet, covid, all these kind of different things.

Uh cybernetics, systems theory, how that's basically become integrated and

A fundamental fact of American collective existence.

And I want people to like understand, synthesize why we have the memes that we do, synthesize why I've been on this Metal Gear Solid type of shit.

Synthesize why I've had this kind of like orientation since summer of last year, which is this like strong emphasis on how we need to appropriate and replicate the systemic logic of the US military.

And stuff like that.

Um, this is a kind of very broad understanding and cognitive mapping of the history of the post-war period, right?

And like explaining this, is our the general theory and understanding.

It's almost like the one you saw in the communist manifesto.

It's kind of trying to give something a little close to that.

Just where the fuck are we?

What is the infrared vision?

What is that?

How do we understand and explain the narrative of like you have the post-war period?

So how does that culminate in Trump?

How does that culminate?

In the age we live in now, right?

The the the type of civilization that is is acquiring

supremacy today or the civilizational dysfunction that we're witnessing and where we are, where we're headed and so on and so on.

It's like I want you guys to really think in terms of

The origins of today really do lie in the collaboration of the military, intelligence agencies, and like I think the strongest if I have to like explain it to you, the strongest thesis in that passage, The Iron Became Hot, is like, okay, what is the Marxist attitude toward conspiracy theories?

Why have conspiracy theories proliferated as much as they do?

The Epstein files are central to our understanding of politics today.

We have this whole thing, we call it the Epstein class, the anti-Epstein Popular Front.

Like why is that so fundamental?

Well, basically, it's it's more or less because

The real artificial intelligence has been the creation of a system.

You call it a system.

But it's an autonomous, self-reinforcing system, right?

That military, that was designed in some sense and which has had inadvertent consequences.

But the systemicization of almost every aspect of civilization and society has created this perception that there's people in command of the machine directly, and it's not how it works.

There is this autonomous machine, in a sense.

In some sense, it's autonomous, which just functions in a specific way that gives expression to the collective will in a certain way.

And that is what most people associate with the conspiratorial agenda.

But the truth is, is the opposite.

The real Epstein class is not planning society that comprehensively.

The Epstein class is actually a fetter on the proliferation of cybernetics and the proliferation of this different way that control, the control of society,

is expressed.

You know, the Epstein class is not planning everything comprehensively.

They're not responsible for every meme and every trend and everything and so on and so on.

What's actually going on is that they are a fetter on the proliferation and development of the cybernetic era, so to speak.

Of the ability for human beings collectively to give expression.

uh to give their will, to give their visions, their goals, their dreams expression in a way that doesn't require the command of subjective institutions, you know, or personalities and so on and so on.

So there's a lot of depth there, and I want you guys to really let it marinate and

Take it seriously, you know?

I don't know.

Uh, I'm not really sure, and also I value your feedback, even if it's negative feedback, because I want to know how you guys react to this.

That's going to determine how I'm going to release and write the book, okay?

This is a writing that's 30,000 words long.

I'm not claiming it's a book, I'm just saying it's pretty long, okay?

So, I want you guys to really give me feedback if you think it's bad, if you think it's just incomprehensible, yada, yada, yada.

Just tell me and I'll adjust accordingly.

I feel like I've had no feedback on that.

I've had no feedback on that writing, which is very discouraging.

You guys keep telling me to finish the book, do the book, do the book, write the book.

How am I going to write the book if I'm getting literally zero feedback on this?

I feel like people just aren't even reading it, you know, which is what I predicted would happen.

if I release the book and I focus all my energy on writing the book, right?

Um so please, you know, just if you want a book, if you want me to finish the book, not both the book and the other book that I want to write, you have to actually give me feedback on this.

Okay.

So

And and yeah, the only feedback I've gotten is people talking about grammar and typos.

I don't give a fuck about that.

This isn't like a book, this isn't a publication.

I don't care about typos, I really don't.

Please shut the fuck up about grammar and typos.

If you understand what I'm trying to say, that's all that matters.

And uh one of the things I still remain

I don't know what to call myself conservative about

In the AI age is the need to cultivate the skill of writing and speaking without AI.

Because I think when you give AI language, when you give AI the dominion over writing, you lose the very means of prompting AI in the first place.

And you know, language is the house of being.

So maybe through AI we're going to find a new hieroglyphic kind of language.

Maybe I'm a reactionary and I'm holding that back in some sense.

But I remain conservative when it comes to the written medium.

It's very important people are literate, they know how to read, they know how to write, they don't let AI think for them.

AI is great when you have control over how it's prompted, and you have an understanding about the relationship between words and images and senses and sensibilities, right?

A lot of the time you don't even know what you want.

The only way to really have a rela active relationship between your desires, the things you want to manifest and exist, and the outcomes, is through the written medium.

If you give that to AI, you know, you're saying AI, give me what I want, right?

You give that to AI, it's going to determine the content of what you want.

It's not simply going to give you what you wanted, it's going to determine what you wanted.

And you're not going to have an active relationship to that at all.

That's the problem.

So

In any case, um I just wanted to talk about that briefly.

All right, so that's the introduction part of my stream.

Now I'm gonna get into it.

Soventurn, let's talk about Soventurn.

Okay, so for those curious, I went to Russia in February to help plan Soventurn, to help give feedback for Infrared to play a very active role in shaping Soventurn and what it's supposed to be.

And then we had the conference in April with

Dozens and dozens of parties, and I think it was 70 countries.

We had 200 representatives from 70 countries, something like that.

I don't remember.

A lot of people were there.

Very well put together event.

And you have a lot of questions, and I'm going to answer those right now.

So

The first question people ask

Before I talk about the mission of Sovereign Turn and the vision and the idea, why was KPRF not there?

Why is this not a KPRF initiative?

Who are who is a Just Russia?

So to my

Disappointment.

I don't know if I should say I'm disappointed.

A lot of people, you know,

Looked up A Just Russia on Google, then looked at their Wikipedia, and Wikipedia calls them democratic socialists and whatever.

And so they just kind of went wild drawing all these different conclusions about Ajust Russia and what kind of people are in that party and who they are because Wikipedia classified them on the politball political LARP spectrum that apparently is just how we understand politics.

So they're like, these are sockdems.

These are just like social democrats.

And so, yeah, that was one of the very common responses to Sovintern was that, why are you working with Social Democrats and not the KPRF?

Is there a problem with KPR?

What's going on with KPRF?

Is something wrong?

Is there okay?

So, I'm just going to talk about that like point blank right now, okay?

And I don't if someone asks me about it after this, I'm gonna slap the shit out of them like straight up.

I don't give a fuck.

Like find a way to fucking tell people after I say this.

Because I keep getting asked.

I keep seeing this question.

I know for a fact that 20 minutes from now in this very stream, somebody's gonna ask me about it.

I just want you to know if you ask me about it, I'm gonna slap the shit out of you if I see you.

Okay?

Because I'm gonna say it right now, like, and I'm gonna talk about it.

I don't wanna talk about it again.

All right?

Why was KPRF not involved in this?

This was specific.

The idea for this came from Adjust Russia people.

That was their idea.

Okay, first of all, it was their idea.

The reason KPRF didn't join this conference was because elections in Russia are coming up.

Because Adjust Russia and KPRF are different parties, I think they're part of different electoral blocs.

That may change.

I don't know.

Elections are coming up, and I don't think KPRF wanted.

To send any kind of message that could undermine their electoral whatever, like independence.

Like they maybe didn't want to, um.

In a span of like one or two months, which is the window between like the planning and the execution.

There's m they need more time to be brought in, basically, because this was the initiative led by Adjust Russia.

Now, why wasn't it led by KPRF?

Because KPRF is already in SolidNet.

So KPRF doesn't find it urgent, urgently necessary to form a new international because they're already part of one.

Now, does that being said, is KPRF closed to the idea necessarily of having a new international?

That's doubtful.

And I could just tell you, there's many people in the KPRF who would love.

for Sovereign Turn to be, you know

A thing that's a collaboration between Adjust Russia and KPRF, but because KPRF's already in SolidNet.

There's not an urgency to form a new international.

But look at how SolidNet is structured, how the Greeks control it, how the Greeks meddle and interfere in everyone's affairs.

The KKE.

You know, right now, it's not looking good.

SolidNet's not looking good.

It's not vital.

It's not fresh.

It's not young.

KPRF is a party of its word.

It made an obligation.

It's signed, you know, the founding.

documents.

It's renewed its membership into SolidNet.

So the KPRF has obligations with respect to SolidNet.

So they're not just gonna overnight join something completely new.

Uh it's gonna take more time, for sure.

And so it has nothing to do with any kind of political difference between Adjust Russia and the KPRF with respect to domestic Russian politics.

It's completely immaterial and irrelevant to why Sovintern is being led by Adjust Russia.

It's just absolutely immaterial.

Okay?

So once if I've answered that question.

There's no beef between KPRF and Adjust Russia when it comes to this, there's no rivalry or conflict at all when it comes to this, there's none at all.

There's no animosity, there's no hostility, there's no issue here.

This initiative was led by Ajust Russia.

Why was it led by Adjust Russia?

Actually, there's another reason I forgot to mention.

A Just Russia's leader has pretty extensive relations with many socialist governments around the world.

They're not constrained by SolidNet.

They're not constrained by specific terms and conditions of association with international socialist and communist

Governments and parties and organizations.

But um we absolutely plan on

The invitation, by the way, was extended to the KPRF.

It's just that it was too short of a notice.

It was like too short of a notice.

Yes, the KPRF was invited.

They're still invited.

The invitation remains open.

There's no there's and when the K when or if the KPRF joins Sovintern, all the people who are trying to spin this narrative of a conflict between the KPRF and Adjust Russia on this issue will look very stupid.

This is just a matter of timing and who proposed the initiative.

That's all.

That's literally it.

So.

I hope that clarifies that answer comprehensively, you know.

Our relations with the KPRF they're as good as ever, but the KPRF is a member of SolidNet.

And SolidNet is not just the KPRF.

KPRF is working within SolidNet to advance.

A specific perspective which does not have the same freedom within SolidNet that it it is able to have within Sovintern.

So it's the same perspective as the KPRF.

There's no ideological difference at all, right?

Okay, so what is sovereign turn?

Sovereign turn

Sovereign turn is a unique international because it's not simply a socialist international.

Sovintern is an international that is specifically based.

On instead of simply socialism or simply communism.

Uniting everyone, it's specifically based on an understanding that the Soviet Union was not just a country.

It was a country for sure, but it wasn't just a country.

The Soviet Union is this kind of civilizational, or I should rather say politico-economic paradigm that has outlived the Soviet Union itself in the form of contemporary socialist governments that are in many ways the inheritance of the Soviet Union.

It's especially true in Latin America.

Cuba and so on and so on, Vietnam.

It's also true for China to a great extent.

Then you also have the fact that.

Uh the Soviet Union was

Was a completely alternative paradigm of history and global development and politics and so on and so on.

So there's this kind of understanding of PAC Sovietica, right?

That it's something more than just a country.

It's also a principle.

It represents an alternative principle, an alternative pole in a way.

And Sovin Turn is committed to developing that and advancing that and exploring that more.

So that's the main thing in Sovin Turn.

It's not simply about history.

It's not simply about honoring history and being a historical heritage kind of thing.

It's more like a specific reflection on the history of the USSR, or I should say the post-Soviet period, and how we can or should respond to that.

So

The thing with Sovin Turn is that

In a in a Socialist International.

It's not clear what relationship that has to the actually existing socialism in the 20th century.

Pretending like this didn't already happen, right?

It's a farce.

It's a farcical mockery of history and it's a mockery of socialism itself.

So SovereignTurn is

Attempting to take the Soviet Union from simply just a country, just another country, right?

And turn that into its own autonomous moral principle.

That is capable of guiding in some sense, providing some kind of influence and, um,

Inspiration and so on and so on to all the peoples of the world.

And you may not understand what I'm talking about specifically here.

But understand something.

The Soviet Union

Was not simply Russia.

It wasn't simply this or that nation or this or that civilization.

It represented

And this was rooted in the idea of the new Soviet man, when you think about it, right?

The creation of a completely new, almost from scratch ex nihilo, civilization.

In in in some sense the Soviet Union is like a contemporary Rome.

Right, the Rome of the modern era.

Because Rome, in the same way Rome represents this kind of autonomous and abstract principle of the universal law of the republic, right, devoid of any specific parochial instantiation.

Devoid of any um sorry um

rootedness in a specific parochial instantiation, right?

Soviet The Soviet Union was something similar.

And how do we isolate Sovietism and the Soviet aspect?

Not necessarily isolate, but identify that as an independent principle, something that has universal relevance and significance.

So, that specific reflection and understanding of the Soviet era and Sovietism is, I think, what makes Sovereign Turn unique.

Because there are a lot of post-Soviet narratives which attempt to say the Soviet Union was simply Russia, the Soviet Union was simply Eurasia, and all those things are not necessarily wrong.

But this is looking at it from a different angle.

It's understanding the universal significance of the Soviet Union, right?

There was a problem in the Soviet period

The Chinese will attest to this the most, probably, which is that the Soviet Union attempted to kind of enforce and exert a specific kind of

Doctrinal, um

Orthodoxy upon socialism worldwide, upon Marxism, Leninism, and Communism worldwide, right?

It represented this kind of rigid.

Universalism in some sense within the context of the international communist movement.

You guys are fucking bored of this.

I'm just gonna be honest.

Like, I could talk about this in a lot of depth, but it's just like, I I don't know.

I feel like I should move on and talk about a San Piker, right?

Uh yeah.

So I feel like nobody gives a fuck, honestly.

Like really.

So, Sovintern is the new international that the ACP is a part of.

The American Communist Party is part of Sovintern.

And we're just in the beginning stages.

We just had our first conference.

There's going to be many more that come from this.

Many more parties are going to join, including some that may surprise you, very strong and powerful ones.

Kilati, what's up?

Appreciate you man.

Appreciate you with the five.

What's up man?

But uh so

I feel like I've addressed and answered most of the important questions on this.

Just know that it's very promising and there's a lot in the works and a lot can come from this.

And it's specifically committed to the creation of an international community dedicated

To bringing

the values of twentieth century communism and Soviet civilization into the twenty first century, led by a new generation.

Very much there's a very much an openness to the freshness, the youthfulness of the the new generation, social media and so on and so on.

So that's the thing you should understand the most here, okay?

Look exhausted.

Well, I've been traveling for days and I, you know, I haven't had a lot of rest, but whatever.

Can you yap a little about the people you met at Sauventurne?

Well, Fidel's grandson was there.

That was very cool.

The Sandinistas were there.

That was also very cool.

There was a lot of interesting, cool people that were there.

I don't know like is that all you care about is like celebrity meet ups or something?

Do you not care about the principles?

Do you not care about the idea?

I feel like I just don't I feel like people don't, you know.

It's sad, but it's just it is what it is.

I feel like what I'm exhausted of is people using civilization in ways that are so presumptuous.

Like, every civilization's particular.

We have.

You know, Russian civilization, Chinese civilization, you know, basically Dugan's understanding of multi-polarity, civil Zhang Weiwei's idea of civilization states, and so on and so on.

Everyone understands distinct particular civilizations, right?

That are concrete.

And then the most common question I always get asked is: What about American civilization?

I'm really bored of it because I've written a lot about it and read America.

So have others.

I've talked a lot about it, but everyone has amnesia and fucking forgets.

And nobody.

I love seeing people just like actually like.

When they do agree with me when I say this shit, like they're able to like continue communicating it so they don't have to constantly repeat myself over and over again.

But um

Yeah.

The important thing to understand is that every civilization, for it to be particular, has to have a relationship to a universal principle of some kind.

And only by having this relationship to the universal principle, does its concrete particularity take form.

Okay?

So in relation to the content, in some sense, of something universal, does the concreteness via form acquire the determination that we associate with the word concrete.

So to put it simply, for a concrete civilization and concrete form of history to exist, China, Russia, America, whatever the fuck you want.

It can only do so by way of reference to a universal principle of some kind, unconditionally universal principle.

And the idea of sovereign turn is understanding the Soviet Union as a specific articulation of that principle.

Instead of simply tethering the Soviet Union to Russia and other

Other other constituent republics, we the idea is that the Soviet Union.

Can also have this dimension of being a universal principle.

I find that extremely fucking interesting.

I personally find that very interesting.

Other people don't find it interesting.

It's because you're fucking retarded and you're porn addicted and you eat Cheetos all day and you play video games and you're worthless.

So I find it really fucking cool and interesting.

I find it really like.

I find it really uh

Fascinating.

Like

It's a fascinating narrative, it's a fascinating way of interpreting the post-Soviet world that we live in, right?

How w our way of understanding the post-Soviet world and the failure in some sense of the Soviet Union in terms of like the ability for it to continue existing formally as a state.

Russia cannot simply become the Soviet Union again, right?

So, where is the Soviet Union and what is the Soviet Union?

Well, instead of reducing it to a specific and particular civilization, let's try to concede how it articulated a universal principle.

And for that precise reason, it could not continue existing in the form of a country.

But we can decentralize that principle.

We can hold it in the palm of our hands.

And in this country, in America, we can be Soviet.

And all peoples of the world can be Soviet.

And they can.

They can behold the principle that we call Soviet.

And apply that to their own country and their own reality.

And for those that say, no, instead of simply being the Soviet Union, we should tap into our own local and what yes, we know.

But there's a reason people in China all started crying when the Soviet Union dissolved, despite the fact that China and the Soviet Union were at odds and were in a state of conflict with each other.

Because they understood there was an irreducible, universal element of the Soviet civilization that even China took for granted and mut may even still take for granted to this day.

It was an alternative modernity,

And that deserves more consideration.

Holy shit, third observer.

Thank you, man.

I appreciate you.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate you, brother.

Holy fuck with the 15.

But I concede people don't find this topic interesting, and that's okay.

All right, well let's talk about Hassan Piker.

So I don't know.

Um, while I was gone, Hassan Piker has been acquiring prominence because he's been going viral.

He's been going viral, you know, um, campaigning for Democrats and telling people to vote Democrat.

And you know

My first reaction is that and it generated a discourse, of course, it's generated a discourse where people are arguing about whether we should vote Democrats or not.

In twenty twenty six we're still having this argument.

But I'm gonna be contrarian and I'm gonna be a little different because

I don't like retards on any side of the debate.

And you know what?

You know why we're stuck in this fucking argument, this endless, stupid fucking argument about why we should vote Democrats?

When Infrared launched in 2020, 2021, that was a central argument.

It was a central argument in 2016.

It was a central argument in 2020.

It was a central argument in 2020.

Not so much 2024 because the Gaza genocide had most leftists were shut the fuck up because of that.

Like, you don't even dare try to make these, like, Vosh tier arguments about Democrats.

But we're back with the same discourse.

But

Who should you fucking blame for this discourse?

Should you blame Hassan Piker for it?

Should you blame the liberals and the liberal opportunists?

Should you blame the people who are materially supported by Democrats?

Should you blame

Cat Abu Ghazala and you should you blame the discursive partisans of Democrat electoral loyalty on the left?

No, blame the people on our fucking side who don't know how to actually fucking understand the problem with this.

Blame our own side.

Blame the people

Blame the leftists who understand that this is wrong, but have fundamentally failed in terms of.

Articulating.

A proper counter argument.

You know what I'm exhausted?

I'm not exhausted when I see Hassan Piker advocate the same things he's always he always has.

I'm not exhausted when I see Bread Tube and I'm not exhausted because it's predictable.

I'm exhausted when the people on our side don't know how to respond to it and respond in retarded fucking ways.

That's what exhausts me.

How can we avoid the trap

Of becoming an appendage of the Democratic Party without becoming retarded cults and sects who have no connection to any objective type of politics and simply reduce politics to the whims and fancies of our ideologies and our consciousness.

It's like there's these two extremes.

Retard LARP.

And

conformity to the Democrat hegemony.

There's like these two extremes, which is this underst this subjectivist understanding of politics, which says politics should directly conform to our principles.

Directly, in the sense that it should be what we want it to be rather than what it actually fucking is, versus the opposite end, which I think Hassan Piker very predictably expresses.

Although I'm gonna talk about that because there's so many contradictions and nuances I feel like people miss when it comes to this, which are crucial to understand.

Uh which is like well no, let's be realistic.

Be realistic and vote Democrat.

Well, I am a realist, first of all.

I'm not saying we can simply have the politics that directly reflects some ideological form and just be that directly.

I don't think that at all.

I do understand there's an objective reality of politics not reducible to our ideologies and subjectivities.

including our moral sensibilities including our morals moral sensibilities.

I do think that the moral dimension of politics is indirect, it's not direct.

Same thing with ideologi ideological and pr principle and so on and so on.

So I absolutely agree.

If you don't have a proper strategy, a proper solution

To the Duopoly, you're just as much culpable as the opportunist shills of the Duopoly.

Caleb Maupin and CPI don't vote Democrat.

There's plenty of.

Retarded third ex there's plenty of retarded manifestations of third party sentiment, which I want nothing to do with.

So strap in and and uh very meticulously pay attention to what I'm about to say here.

Yo.

Ones if you can hear me.

Alright.

Okay.

Alright, so um I want you to understand that in the dimension of politics and in history at large, there are objective contradictions that are not reducible to the contradiction between our understanding of the correct line and the reality.

So let me give you the reality that's objective.

There is a contradiction going on.

within the Democratic Party of some kind.

And I'm s I'm really starting to notice it now.

In ways that were not manifest before, but are actively being drawn out.

We can talk about how much Hassan Piker has been given a free pass and how how easy he's had it.

How easy he had it, right?

He's been given puff pieces.

It's all predictable.

He had friends.

He was networking in all these different ways.

Progressives could get away with.

Sliding under the radar and without controversy, without provoking controversy, you know, smuggle in leftist ideas within the liberal hegemony without causing too much controversy.

But, you know, this era is coming to an end.

So leftists were playing the game of the kind of long march through the institutions, I think, for at least since 2016, right?

That's coming to an end now.

And now a decisive line is being drawn thanks to the acceleration of the post-October 7th, you know, Zionist, anti-Zionist axis of polarization that's taken the country, where now prominent establishment media is being divided between those who basically there's a Drew Pavlooization going on.

All the major liberal media think that the honeymoon era of leftism being tolerated by the mainstream is rapidly coming to an end.

And now there's a Drew Pavlooization that's going on even in mainstream liberal media.

Let's call it what it is.

It's Drew Pavluization, okay?

Where the combination of Silicon Valley going more rightward, which has happened since 2024, I mean, earlier, frankly, much earlier, but it's been made explicit since 2024.

The combination between Silicon Valley acquiring more discursive prominence and

That retarded Claire whatever the fuck her name is from Quillette, you know, those types.

There's a specific convergence between

I'm a liberal, I'm a progressive, but you know, this.

specific type of left leftism goes too far.

I'm an abundance, Ezra Klein liberal.

I think that the pro-Russia, pro-China stuff is abominable.

The communism stuff is honestly you consult the economic experts and what we really need is to have an economy founded upon child rape, endless rape and child rape.

of austerity, neoliberal, technocrat, abundance, Ezra Klein.

Confronting Putin's authority.

I don't know.

Do you understand what I'm fucking talking about?

It's like.

Liberals have kind of been getting cucked since the Bernie era.

Master, what's up?

I'm gonna explain what's happened.

Fuck, you guys need to hear this and holy shit, put your put your thinking caps on and like actually listen, because it's important you have the discernment.

You have the intelligence.

You know what intelligence is?

It's the ability to render things intelligible.

Instead of just shitting and spamming.

The correct line, and well, instead of just shitting out, calling Hassan Piker a retard, I want you to actually have a correct analysis of what's been happening up until this point.

Okay, in 2016, Donald Trump won.

In 2016, Donald Trump won.

Whoa, right, crazy.

I do you know that?

Ones if you remember that.

Ones If You Know Trump won in 2016.

Anyway, when Trump won in 2016, it set the neoliberal establishment in the media awry.

Okay, there was a huge assault on him from the neoliberal media establishment.

There was panic.

Yeah, very much, very much.

Russia Gate and all this shit.

Like, he was regarded as an en an enemy of the fourth estate, whatever you want to call it, a threat to democracy.

By democracy, we of course are referring to

neoliberal institutional hegemony.

Anyway, Trump politically very quickly, you know, ceased to be any kind of threat to such you know, he recruited the neocons, some of the more wacky extreme wings of the neoliberal hegemony.

And so politically he put off any threat that he would be a political problem.

But nonetheless, Trump represented a crisis for neoliberal society.

MAGA represented I talk I write about this.

Like

He was the the primary contradiction was MAGA, the loss of the trust in the institutions.

Do you understand what I'm talking about?

When Trump was elected in 2016, the liberal establishment, if you can call them that, neoliberal establishment, the technocrats, whatever, they regarded the popular mistrust and loss of faith in institutions as a major crisis.

They associated it with foreign adversaries, with domestic terrorism or something, but they saw it as a major threat to the system, to the hegemony.

And this is a fact.

So that was the main focus was

Uh combating that, combating

MAGA combating the post-Trump era, you know, um rogue type of sovereignty that I talk about in the rise of MAGA communism.

Rogue forms of popular sovereignty taking shape, rogue cybernetic forms of popular sovereignty, rogue AIs on the loose.

Hey, by the way, if you don't know what that means.

Popular sovereignty is itself a form of artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is simply fucking robots who can think and talk and stuff.

And artificial intelligence is a specific artificial um

Artificial, the an artificial function of intelligence, meaning the ability for something outside of our minds to discriminate and render reality intelligible in some kind of way.

And collective principles and collective systems, collectively created systems and forms of popular sovereignty are themselves artificial forms of intelligence.

They render reality discriminate and intelligible in specific ways.

They bend it and shape it in different ways.

This comes from Reza Nagaristani in some way.

Intelligence and Spirit.

He writes it in that book that the real, the ultimate form of artificial intelligence is communism itself, right?

The riddle of history solved.

Anyway, I don't want to give you a crash course on this shit.

Oh, wow.

Don't overthink it.

All right.

It's super simple.

Anyway um

So it's like artificial intelligence gone rogue and gone wrong, right?

So there is a primary contradiction at hand, that's all you have to keep in mind and remember.

And that gave the left a lot of wiggle room, a lot of wiggle room, to basically get a platform by the neoliberal hegemony and mainstream institutions.

So it starts with destiny.

From destiny, Hassan Piker gets a platform.

Do you understand the analogy?

In gaming companies even, I know there was Gamergate before, but in all types of media, institutions, academia, whatever you want.

Leftists were given a platform by virtue of being part of this like anti-maga popular front.

It's almost like it was this mockery of the historical anti-fascist Popular Front.

Where it was led by the fascist hegemony itself and leftists played second fiddle.

But in any case, most of these glasses-wearing neoliberal technocrat types were completely oblivious and clueless about leftism.

They didn't really, I mean, when they were told Marxism is simply workers' ownership of the means of production and all the bread tube spiel, so to speak, of course, there's British MI6 agents who will warm their hearts to that.

Oh, it's just democracy applied to the workplace.

Oh, yeah, that's the yes, this is like the intelligentsia warming up to something that ultimately condemns them to be in mass graves.

Okay.

Tale as old as time.

It happened also, by the way, in the post-war period when the intelligentsia sympathized with Stalin and then they learned about the gulags and then they were horrified and what it were Hungary in 56 or something, right?

Nothing new under the sun there.

But a new incarnation of that happened after 2016, where basically liberals were tricked by leftists into platforming and tolerating, if not adopting, I would say tolerating mainly, you know, leftist ideas as okay, as innocuous, as, well, this is just like, you know, pro-democracy ideas.

And MAGA is the main threat.

Trump is the main threat.

So that's basically what you had post-2016.

Leftists were given a platform by neoliberal institutions.

Hassan Piker's career trajectory mirrors this because you started with Destiny, who I guess one-for-one represents trust the science, trust the institutions type of politics.

And Hassan Piker got a platform from Destiny.

And, you know, the rest is history.

But that's basically an analogy for what I'm talking about.

Okay?

So but there's always been a strand of leftism that is not necessarily liberal.

It's there it's kind of in a sense fundamentally illiberal.

And actually Infrared is the one that really drew this strand out and really drew the line and said, Okay, you know what, liberals, go fuck yourselves, you know?

Now you see Hassan Piker giving speeches at Yale talking about how the Soviet Union was good and we need a proletarian dictatorship.

To the shock of Liberals, actually.

But that's part of the strand, an illiberal strand.

It's very it's it's an illiberal strand that exists in leftism, okay?

So uh I hope you guys are following me here.

You understand what I'm saying.

It's not too confusing, it's not too overwhelming to you.

Ones, if you're following so far.

Okay, good.

I'm glad.

There was always a difference between that.

That's what I'm trying.

There's always been a difference between Hassan Piker and Destiny.

That's what I'm trying to say.

The difference is from 2016 up until this point.

Leftism was given a platform and was allowed to blend in with liberals.

And nobody really cared, or it's not because it's not because Hassan is a CIA agent.

I don't think he is.

I actually think he does this 'cause he believes it.

You could say he's motivated personally but and uh be cynical and say he just wants the connections and power.

I don't know actually, because his uncle, Jenk, has a very different attitude and family I think s speaks volumes.

So I don't know.

I think he genuinely rationalizes and believes this is the best strategy.

And that's why, in good faith, I'd like to respond to Hassan Piker.

I don't want to talk about.

I don't want to say that it's all based on m personal motivations of greed and so on.

I don't want to be angry at him.

I don't want to cancel him.

I want to rationally confront and rationally respond to his line of argumentation.

And his justification and his reasoning.

I think that's more important to do.

I'm too old, I'm turning 30 this year, I don't have time to.

Take such things personally, and be angry about them.

I know y a lot of you guys want me to be angry.

You like when I yell and you like when I get angry, but

I did that already when it came to BreadTube and shit.

Why would I want to keep doing this?

You know, instead, I should speak clearly with lucidity and offer.

Just be fucking clear about it, right?

So

Uh in any case

That specific honeymoon between leftism and neoliberalism.

started coming to an end because of october seventh.

And that's when neoliberals, if you whatever you want to call them, they started acquiring distinction.

They started putting their foot down and saying, you know what?

I'm against Trump and MAGA and all, and I'm totally on board with the anti-quote unquote anti-fascism.

But I'm noticing a lot of these leftists support Bashar al-Assad.

That was the first thing, the witch hunt against tankies.

Hassan Piker avoided.

that witch hunt.

But uh then you know later it was what about Putin and China and the Uyghur camps and this is like when infrared started out, right?

Then in twenty two, the SMO, obviously game changer, Russia.

It's like there's this

Gradual process where neoliberals started to realize that, you know, actually, leftists aren't the same as we progressive Democrats.

There's something illiberal about leftism.

There's something about it that's like totally rogue, and it's actually similar to MAGA.

It's a rogue AI.

So they started treating leftism as a rogue AI in the same way they treat MA as a rogue AI.

Okay?

They started understanding and comprehending that the left wing is not the same thing as the neoliberal hegemony.

That the left wing did some kind of Takia, okay, transgender rights and LGBT progressivism to blend in with the neoliberal establishment.

But there was something there that was fundamentally incompatible with it.

and illiberal and malign.

Malign AI

Distinct, different, right?

And uh now I'm starting to see mainstream liberal media I can't cite them think pieces and hit pieces on Hassan Piker.

They're going, Look, I'm a progressive, I support socialism, I love Bernie Sanders, I'm a big fan of uh

Incremental healthcare reform.

I don't know what these people believe.

I don't disagree with the view that Nanyahu needs to be held accountable for the excesses.

But we should, in the same way we condemn Nick Fuentes, let's condemn Hassan Piker.

He's also an extremist.

He's also an illiberal extremist.

He does apologia for the Soviet Union.

He does apologia for terrorism for October 7th.

He's anti-Zionism creeps on the border of anti-Semitism.

His conflict with Ethan Klein was a foreshadow of this fact.

But up until this point,

The conflict with Ethan Klein did not get to the institutional level.

Hassan Piker thought he had successfully marginalized Ethan Klein as a right-winger or something.

And, you know, and this is how he understood his own victory, his sense of victory, right?

It's not true, though.

Now, now more than ever, we're getting to the point where because Hassan Piker is associating himself with Democrats so prolifically and so actively, you'd think they would just reward him and say, okay, we love you, Hassan Piker, for being a Democrat chill.

That's not what's happening.

I want you to be very, very discerning about the dynamic going on.

What's happening is that the platforming of Hassan Piker by Democrat politicians is starting discourses and it's initiating conversations within the Democratic Party hegemony of like, um, do we really want this guy around us?

And like there's a debate that it's starting and the pro-Hassan wing of that debate is not very strong within the Democratic Party.

It's not very prominent.

So he's being subjected to hit pieces and there's like a conflict going on in there where like the ultra pro-Zionist Democrats

Of course, coupled with the Republicans and the APAC and whatever,

But also within the Democratic Party, are starting to really hone in on Hassan Piker as being this.

You know, representing this like rogue, illiberal, leftist AI, and almost like they see him as MAGA, what they used to see as MAGA, right?

And he's dangerous and so on and so on, yada yada yada.

And I want you to be intelligent in understanding these contradictions because.

Let's have an intelligent response to Hassan Piker.

Let's not have a stupid one.

Um if a son piker

In his mind, in his own mind, if he stopped campaigning with these Democrats, you know, what's her name, Corey Bush, and whatever.

Abdul Sayyid, like if he wasn't doing this and if he was just

uh not being involved in his mind he would not I'm being very good faith by the way assuming this is his strategy right he wouldn't be accelerating that con contradiction

The contradiction itself is very powerful, you know, because

We at the AC we the ACP do this same fucking thing.

Not with the Democrats, not with the Republicans.

We do the same thing.

We accelerate contradictions.

We know how it works.

Um if you're a marginal voice, then nobody cares what you say.

But if you're a voice who's being legitimated by mainstream politicians and mainstream media and you're being accepted and you're not being canceled and you're defending the Soviet Union and you're advocating against NATO and you're defending China and you're advocating the dissolution of Israel as a state, you are gonna ruffle some fucking feathers.

That's how it works.

That's how it works.

I want you guys to understand that that is how it works.

When you

When you're canceled, it doesn't matter what you fucking believe.

It does, it does, obviously for the purposes and from the perspective of an alternative strategy.

But from the perspective of the logic of the hegemony, when it when you're legitimated by it in some sense,

You know, and then you start being problematic, you can accelerate and accentuate contradictions.

An example of this is Trump himself.

Did Trump run as a third party in 2016?

No, he ran as a Republican.

Had Trump not been present at the Republican debates in 2015, would anyone have given a fuck about him?

Think of this.

This is, I want you to understand where Hassan's coming from before you attack him so we can correctly have a response.

Do you understand?

Like the some somehow the only way to be

To participate in objective politics rather than your own subjective politics.

Is by

Articulating and responding to the contradictions that do exist objectively there.

Not internally, subjectively here, okay, between the what you want and what you wish and versus reality.

Whoever's waging a war between their wishes and reality is waging a vain, vain b war they've already lost.

It's not interesting and it goes nowhere.

But when you can correctly tap into objective contradictions within the system itself and provoke the system to have an internal confrontation with itself, suddenly you're dealing with a situation

where you can accelerate the systemic dysfunction of the hegemony.

You can accelerate the various dysfunctional

ways by which it acquires self-relation.

You can you can uh disrupt its ability to reproduce itself discursively and culturally as it gives way to the

Material contradictions that underlie it.

You can provoke such things, and it's the duty of Marxists to provoke such things, not simply excise themselves from politics in the name of moral purity.

I'm not saying Hassan's doing this correctly.

I'm just telling you the specific response to Hassan on the grounds of: okay, well, let's just disinvest and create our own reality.

That conforms fully with what we want in our heads.

It's a road to nowhere, frankly.

So

That's the first thing I want to say, okay?

Now um

Why does how and why does Hassan get this wrong?

Well, it's very simple.

I think Hassan Piker fears that if he steps down

From where he is, he's gonna lose the mantle of being the preeminent influencer of American leftism.

Someone else will take his place, and that's what he's scared of.

And it's an insecurity I don't understand at all.

Hassan Piker needs to understand that the illiberal rogue AI that we call leftism, right, which he is the face of in America.

That doesn't have an institutional basis.

It's almost as if instead of punishing Hassan

Maybe we should

Maybe we should encourage him to just have the self-confidence to understand that.

That specific niche being occupied.

is empty.

If you cease to occupy it, it will simply not exist.

Whereas if, for example, if you cease to occupy this the throne of progressive neoliberalism, of course someone else will take your place.

Why?

Because there is an institutional

Gravity, there's an institutional incentive for that throne to be occupied because it's cond there's like a material cause for it.

It's like it's there because it needs to be there according to the logic of our institutions.

But that's not true for the leftism that defends the Soviet Union.

That's not true for the leftism that does assert a red line with the liberals and the neoliberals.

You know, the Ivan Drago edit.

That's our shit.

They don't have the Ivan Drago edit.

We're the ones that are saying, hey, fuck you.

We're taking this shit.

We're not negotiating with you.

We're seizing the means of production.

We're building the proletarian dictatorship.

We don't give a fuck about your fucking Ezra Klein abundance fucking gay bullshit.

We don't give a SOV your fucking economists and experts up your fucking ass.

We are building the Soviet Union 2.0.

It will be authoritarian.

We're gonna throw the fucking scientists who disagree with us in a ditch.

And crush them with an iron fist.

Like Ivan Drago.

That's the fucking energy that we're on.

To calm down.

Milo with the twenty-five, thank you.

Okay, do you understand though?

Do you understand what I'm talking about?

Like in Stranger Things Season 3, that fucking Soviet general.

Who just picked up a lab-coated scientist and started choking him like Darth Vader?

That's the type of shit we're on.

We're not here to negotiate with nerds.

We're not here to negotiate with the shills of the institutions and of the hegemony.

That's not why we're here.

There is something illiberal, rogue, malign, dark about real left-wing politics.

And let's fucking embrace it instead of doing Takia and blending in with liberals.

That's all I'm fucking saying.

And is it wrong to say it?

No, it's correct.

It's what Infrared has been saying since day one and we've been ahead of the curve.

We've been ahead of the curb every step of the way.

Maybe it was impossible for Hassan Piker to do that.

Maybe it was impossible.

Although I disagree.

I actually disagree with that.

I disagree it would have been impossible.

I think he should have the self-confidence to understand that if he, if Hassan Piker breaks with the Democratic Party, that in and of itself will induce that will induce an objective change.

I mean that, by the way, I'm very deadly serious about that.

If Hassan Piker went rogue, ditched the Democratic Party entirely, and fully went rogue, okay, fully went dark, right?

It would cause immense turmoil and chaos and so on.

I fully, I agree, but.

He would not lose the power.

He would actually become more powerful.

There's no one, there's no other, like, what is he scared of?

Is he scared of Ethan Klein and Destiny?

What pull do they have?

You know, there's a reason Jenk, his uncle, went down the path that he did.

Too little, too late, by the way, although Anna Kasparian is kind of good at it.

Because we are in the age of MAGA.

This is a post-MAGA age.

And it's a cybernetic popular sovereignty.

It's all that fucking matters.

Instead of institutional accreditation and legitimation, institutional legitimation doesn't mean anything.

That's Epstein, Harvey Weinstein style of discourse and politics, where there's an insider who's powerful and you have to get their approval.

You don't need that anymore.

If you go rogue, you break with the hegemony, you break with the Democratic Party, you just walk with your fucking nuts hanging, basically.

As long as you can have a base, as long as you have the people in some naive sense,

They will carry you all the way fucking through.

You will be crowdsurfing all the way through.

You don't need the Democratic Party.

You don't need.

The New York Times, you don't need institutional accreditation.

You should join the dark side.

And be in this basket of deplorables with everyone else.

Yes, including Jake Shields and Dan Bulzerian and all these other people.

You can disagree with them, I disagree with them on plenty.

I I disagree with Hassan Piker probably on plenty.

You can still retain your attitude on trans whatever.

It doesn't matter.

All that matters is you break with the hegemony and you join the underground.

You join the dark side.

And it's not a unified politics I'm talking about.

I'm just talking about this wild space that exists outside of the institutions.

And it's very possible to be there.

It's very possible for someone like Piker to thrive there, I think, actually.

It's very possible.

And um

I think he thinks that if he does that, he's going to become irrelevant and marginal and um

Uh you know

Unimportant and so on, but

You need to understand that it's the mainstream media and it's the hegemony that's becoming unimportant and irrelevant.

And this is this pro you should understand what's been going on for the past two decades maybe.

let's say one decade, right?

What's going on for the past decade is that mainstream neoliberal institutions have increasingly had to acquiesce to this new cybernetic form of the general will.

That is wild and rogue.

And it's also what has provoked the Drew Pavlooization of

The Liberal Left

Because

I mean, the way it all fits together is uh

Very simple actually, you know.

The more that they began to understand, it's like in it's almost like I always dreamed of a I wanted you know who I wanted to lead MAGA communism before I even had a word for MAGA communism.

I'm gonna tell you some, I used to follow streamer politics as a as a schizophrenic Marxist.

Esoteric Marxist who had no illusions about how retarded and shallow it was.

I understood it also reflected objective tendencies within American politics.

And so, like, I followed the Destiny Hassan drama.

I remember it in 2020.

I thought there was an opening there for something very, very interesting.

Which is destiny started to identify in Hassan Piker a rogue, malign AI, just like Mago, right?

There's something dangerous and dark about this leftism.

And so my thoughts were: okay, Hassan's reaction was very defensive.

Hassan said, No, I want to fight for the hill of libtardism.

Destiny, you're the dark right-wing one, and I'm just the regular liberal.

I'm the normal liberal, and I don't have this darkness, the dark side, right?

And he won, by the way, successfully.

He won that battle.

He was able to create a kind of

Situation where he would associate destiny with the reaction, the the MAGA reaction to or the MAGA opposition, I should say, to progressivism.

And this provoked a lot of resentment and hatred on the side of the neoliberals and so on, but it also provoked upon I'm not fuck.

The way my brain works is that like sometimes things that are happening in parallel, I just lump it in with that and say, Oh, this is the cause of it.

Of course, the streamer drama is not the cause of this profound process that I'm talking about.

You know, the parallel is like Bernie Sanders versus Democratic Party, mainstream politics, all this kind of stuff.

Like, there's a specific dynamic that

Was provoked where a critical type of self-reflection on the part of the neoliberal kind of hegemonic ideologists occurred that culminates in Drew Pavluization, where they're like, Look, although we are distinct from MAGA and Trump, we also have to recognize that leftism also becomes extreme and too far.

And the horseshoe theory, basically, right?

It has these illiberal Nasbull tendencies.

So we need to kind of buckle down and in order to effectively combat Trumpism and MAGA, we have to excise ourselves of leftism.

But in the process of excising of leftism, you can appear similar to the right wing and you can appear similar to MAGA because a lot of the justification on the part of MAGA and the Republicans is contrasting themselves to the so-called radical left extremists, right?

So, but the maneuver is very interesting because the hegemony's ideology is going to directly be.

W something that looks like Destiny's politics in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, right?

It's now it's now finally taking shape, right, uh in the mainstream institutions.

But for a long time, because of this dynamic where it appears to be a shift to the right and therefore a concession to Trump and to MAGA, the leftists were able to retain dominance over

that kind of drew prevalu types, right?

To the point where Drew Pavu was like, you know, actually, I'm a right-winger now.

I'm not even left-wing.

Anyway, you know.

I hope you guys are following me and understand what I'm talking about here.

It's complicated, but it's also super simple, you know?

Um

So yeah.

So w what did I think in 2020?

You know, in twenty twenty I had the hope that actually I h I hoped that this specific contradiction between Destiny and Hassan would provoke Piker to actually embrace this darkness, you know, the left-wing darkness, and kind of in some sense coalesce and converge with MAGA in the MAGA communist sense.

and be like, Okay, you know, uh we should be skeptical toward the institutions.

We should be we shouldn't we should be independent from them.

We should bully nerds, destiny, and so on.

We should be like MAGA and bully the nerds.

We should say, you know, you said

Stalin was authoritarian and he killed five hundred trillion people.

We should we should fucking have the Ayaven Drago response.

And be like, okay, based.

I don't know, like, we should embrace.

The trolling the libs type of thing.

That's how we're gonna make leftism or the left wing distinct and independent.

Like I'm not saying mimic MAGA and and copy MAGA.

I'm saying like adopt the same ro uh embrace, I should say,

The same rogue, illiberal tendencies with respect to being outside of the neoliberal hegemony.

And that creates, yes, a type of proximity to MAGA.

And that would have allowed my dream for the left wing in America has never been, oh, we're just going to have a politics that directly reflects our ideology.

It was more like I've always been realistic about politics since the Bernie era, okay?

Why the fuck would I even entertain Bernie Sanders?

I've always been a Marxist, I've always been a revolutionary Marxist, but I also understand politics is reality, not ideology, right?

Anyway, my strategy, the post-Bernie strategy I've always dreamed of, is let's build a left wing out of MAGA.

Instead of

Instead of fighting f with liberals over the liberal hegemony,

Let's raise an army of barbarians from MAGA to give the left wing the substance and power that it fucking needs to crush the enemy.

That was my dream.

It's always been.

I didn't care.

I don't listen, by the way, the culture stuff, it's second fiddle.

like it's not that I people people m didn't clock me the right way.

They thought, Oh, Haas is a uh he's a guy who just hates feminists or something, or he's an incel who's upset at women or feminism and he's just

He just cares about masculinity because uh he's homophobic and transphobic.

No, I wanted the left wing to have the masculinity, to literally be Ivan Drago and crush liberals with a hammer.

That's what I wanted.

I wanted the left wing to have a backbone, to have the power.

Ma in some sense that is very masculine.

But understand the content of what I cared about was revenge revenge against Hillary and the Democratic establishment.

Revenge against the pet these people who pushed identity politics to crush left-wing politics, which did have a chance and would have been an alternative to Trump in 2015, but it was crushed.

I wanted revenge for that.

And not simply revenge for petty reasons, brutal styles up.

I'm not simply talking about revenge in some petty sense, I'm talking about.

I saw

A strand of left-wing politics that had fucking potential in 26.

It was fucking crushed and erased, but I remembered it.

I remembered it.

And I had a specific vision and strategy for how we can remain faithful to that.

You know, that's it.

That's really it.

It's really simple.

I've always been left wing, okay?

Uh but I also understood what happened.

And I understood this there's something about the left that's different from neoliberal, Democrat, whatever progressive that's all I'm trying to say.

Okay?

And that's where I cut that's the that's the origin story of with respect to domestic US politics, infrared.

I hope you understand that.

Um

So I hoped in 2020 when Destiny clocked Hassan correctly, I would argue, as an illiberal rogue.

Uh MAGA Ty Post Maga type.

Danger or something.

I was hoping he would embrace it.

And something very strange happened instead, which is fascinating.

I would have never I thought it was inevitable.

What I wanted to happen, I actually thought was inevitable.

But somehow reality had other plans, I guess, and something strange happened.

Instead of that happening,

It was destiny and the neoliberals who were clocked as dark and rogue and illiberal.

And Hassan

was the face of the liberal mainstream for a long time.

And got away with that.

And Destiny was marginalized and destroyed.

Now our best interpretation of that is that this was a consequence of the ruthless maneuvering and

Effici effective, really effective and efficient ability for

The Hassan Piker coalition to crush the opposition.

But none the less should the Communists not disdain to conceal their views?

Should we not be a little more open and honest?

Why do we have to hide from ourselves and from the public?

Mr.

Krabs, you're really missing it a lot.

You're saying critical support for troop of the like.

What are you fucking talking about?

I don't even know what you're interpreting from what I'm saying, but it's kind of the opposite.

Uh, it was because no, no, the whole thing about the lawsuit with Destiny that came after what I'm talking about was in 2020 to 2022.

Also, it was because during the 2020 riots, Destiny was like, oh, you know, he supports Kyle Rittenhouse.

That was a huge thing that.

He defeated himself when he did that, by the way.

Totally defeat.

He logic lorded himself into marginalization.

With respect to his like status within the liberal mainstream, he was banned from Twitch for a long time and departnered.

I remember I I love recalling the facts of history.

Keep believing Hassan is an illiberal horse when he's being followed by Alex Soros on Instagram.

No, you're right.

Everything is just one thing.

You're right.

Everything's just one thing.

It's just like everything's just, it's all just one thing.

Everything, as Marxism says, everything is just one thing.

You know, as dialectics teaches us.

Um there are no opposing tendencies within anything.

It's all just one thing.

And you know what actually it is?

It's the good guys, Caleb Maupin CPI, versus the bad guys.

And it's actually just that simple.

We just have to continue shouting slo the right slogans and we will be able to strategically maneuver within reality the most effectively.

Just have to have the right slogans and that's it, right?

Let me ask you a question.

Do you think I'm fucking retarded?

No, no, no, really, I mean it.

No, no, no, really, like, like, look at me.

Do you think I'm fucking retarded?

Like, do you think I'm a mental retard with Down syndrome or something?

Like, no, no, look at me.

Like, do you think I'm fucking retarded?

You think I'm stupid in my fucking head and I'm a g actual fucking retard?

'Cause if you think that, just say it.

Honestly, just say it if that's what you think.

You'll save me a lot of time.

And.

Just insult me and call me a fucking retard.

I know that Soros supports Hassan Piker.

I know that the Democratic establishment supports Hassan Piker.

I know they have been supporting Hassan Piker for years.

I know that mainstream

Infl mainstream institutions of media and think tanks overall have clocked him as a force for good.

That's a given.

That's what's given.

Can we establish a baseline that we all already fucking know that?

And it's something to be taken for granted and it's given.

Of course it's true.

Of course it's true.

But that why simultaneously

Are there still tensions?

Where do those tensions come from?

Because the specific theory.

The specific theory.

No, there's no Soros wing.

It's all a Soros wing.

You don't know what you're fucking talking about.

You're like mentally retarded.

The crypto MAGA wing of the DNC, Drew Pavloo, should who's an Australian, by the way, should excise from Hassan and deal a blow to the Soros wing.

You have lost the fucking plot.

You've lost the fucking plot.

This guy is saying that he thinks the Drew Pavloo, like, you know.

I don't know, neoliberal, open neoliberal Democrats who are like, you know, Hassan is too extreme for supporting Hamas.

He's saying they're the progressive ones and that Hassan Piker represents George Soros and that these are crypto MAGA people who somehow, I don't know.

I don't know, I haven't streamed for two weeks and I'm seeing these crazy things, like these crazy forms of consciousness develop.

I congratulated the community for having its shit together while I was gone.

And then I'm seeing crit like a regular chatter say the craziest shit.

I just don't even know where it comes from.

Hassan doesn't support Hamas.

It doesn't matter if he supports Hamas.

He's being attacked for supporting Hamas.

Is he not being attacked for doing that?

Why would it fucking matter who he supports?

People are loudly complaining and making a problem out of the fact that they perceive that he's doing that.

In any case

It's a given that Hassan Piker has has been propped up by Soros and all these other people.

I there definitely I agree.

Overall, he's been clocked as a force for good.

A counterweight to the red pill, a counterweight to the alt-right, a progressive counterweight that is bluepilling a generation of that was tho those were the narratives they were running about him and it revealed w why they supported him.

Okay, I know that it's a given.

But guess what?

There are also other tensions that are beginning to manifest themselves, which reflect the fact there has always been an irreducibly illiberal tendency within Hassan Piker, which no, you can't say is Soros.

You can't.

There's always been an irreducibly illiberal tendency there.

Where it's always been there.

Now, how has he articulated it?

Maybe he thinks he's hiding his power level and he's playing a long game or something.

I can't fucking tell you.

But if you don't see that in the long term, there's always been an irreducibly illiberal tendency.

I'm not even saying it's like the most it's the fundamental one by way of principle for him.

I'm just saying, do what is the specific reason for Hassan Piker to support the People's Republic of China?

Let's start there.

Why does Hassan overall have a pro-China attitude?

Is Alex Soros compelling him to defend China?

I'm not saying he's okay, Mr.

Krabs 9,000.

Okay, but why is he LARPing in that way?

Tell me why.

What is the reason for the LARP that Hassan Piker is pro-China?

Why is he why was he not unconditionally pro-Ukraine?

Why during the SMO did he continually try to maintain this nuanced stance where, yes, he's denouncing Putin and Russia, but he's also going out of his way to say that he blames NATO?

And why is it that after October 7th,

He justifies the resistance.

Why is it?

Why does he take these stances?

Tell me why he endorsed Fenderman in 2022.

For re we all know the reason why he did that, because he's rewarded by the Democratic establishment for shilling for the Democrats.

Okay, we know that though, like that's not a mystery, that's not the mystery, Mr.

Krabs.

Like please be fucking intelligent.

That's not the mystery.

We know why he's a Democrat.

We fucking know why he's a fucking shitlib.

We know that.

But tell me why he has all these other views which cannot be explained.

No, he didn't.

Okay.

But why didn't he just go full Drew Pavloo?

Why is he maintaining something?

Why is he not destiny?

Do you understand what I'm fucking saying?

Like, you need to think in your head.

You're purity testing him.

I'm not arguing with you about the fact that he's not a fucking Kom Somal.

He's not a Kom Somal.

I agree.

He's not an exemplary model communist.

I agree.

But nonetheless, how the fuck do you explain him giving kudos to Jackson Hinkle when Jackson gave a speech in Yemen and Hassan Piker saw it on stream and reacted to it?

You want to know what he fucking said?

He said, that's based.

He's like, you know, Jackson, he literally praised us several times, by the way.

He did.

He did praise us several times.

It's a fact.

He has praised us several times.

So I'm Chairman of the ACP.

I want you to explain to me why this Soros Democrat shill, which he may very well be, but why does he take these peculiar stances

That are in no way necessiated by that.

That's all I want to know.

Not disagreeing he's a Democrat and all these other things.

I'm just saying, I feel like I'm being strawmanned here.

When I say there's always been an irreducibly illiberal tendency that has always been there.

Um

And you're saying, well, no, because he's a liberal z- I agree.

I mean, like, you're saying, oh, well, no, because Hassan Piker has always.

Practically shilled for the no, no, I agree, but for no, for reasons that cannot be explained, he's also.

in a very limited way, taking stances that hurt him and don't help him.

And I'm open to your response to this, by the way, because I can give you a response.

What if the irreducible tendency is just an act and Hassan is a Soros lib dem?

Okay, finally we have someone who.

You could have just said that if that's what you want to say.

And he's faking it.

And I'm raising the question of why.

Why fake it, though?

Why does that help him to fake it?

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, okay, I could give you a potential explanation and let's evaluate the explanation and see how plausible it is.

Maybe he.

Uh maybe he is preemptively hijacking.

A potential independent left wing, and that's why it's because he's trying to shit coat.

A powerful form of independent left-wing politics that doesn't exist yet.

Or some of the most schizophrenic explanations which give us a lot of credit, which could be true, maybe it's true, maybe it's because Hassan is trying to opportunistically

appropriate the tendencies and things that make ACP appealing.

Maybe this is all just a psyop to stop ACP and associate, you know, the pro-China tanky position with Hassan rather than the ACP, you know, because maybe, maybe, maybe that's why.

I feel like we need to be a little realistic about

How much we're actually on his radar, which we are for sure on his radar, but I'm saying, like, how much though?

Like, really?

Is he gonna risk his goodwill and good favor with mainstream media just to

And then, you know, the the explanation I really hate is is the idealist autistic one, which says.

Our position is true.

Therefore, it exerts itself discursively, like gravity, such that, you know, it's so like autistic.

It's like, okay, because our position is true, Hassan Piker is going out of his way to acquiesce and concede to it because it is unavoidably true.

It's just so self-evident and obvious that Marxism-Leninism is correct and it's self-evident and it's like a given and it is undeniable and unignorable.

I hate to break it to you.

But Marxism-Leninism as an ideology is very ignorable.

It's very deniable and very ignorable.

I promise you it is.

From 1991.

Until recently, it was a completely marginal worldview associated with Jason Unruh.

That's what a tankie was, Jason Unruh.

Why did I pay respect to Jason Unruh?

Because he was the face of tankies for a while.

So don't sit here and pretend like, oh, it's just unignorable.

That's why he's opportunistic.

Well, it is kind of ignorable, though.

You know, so don't be unrealistic.

Don't be unrealistic.

Uh it's appeasement that effectively neutralizes his radical base.

You have to at least it's possible.

Okay, but where does the radical base come from?

Why are you arguing in a circle?

Where does the radical base come from?

Would that radical base not reflect an irreducibly illiberal tendency?

You know, maybe the irreducibly illiberal tendency.

is something within Hassan Piker only to the extent that it's a tendency among his audience, but you would still have to concede that that that tendency is in him.

Because of his audience in this case, right?

That's all I'm saying, because of the tendencies among his audience.

I don't think there's any spontaneous necessity that incentivizes people to defend the Soviet Union in America.

I don't in American politics.

I don't think there's pressure.

Maybe we're putting the pressure on.

Maybe we're the accelerant.

I think we are actually to a huge extent.

I just want you to understand that this is the space that matters.

Like

Let's say Hassan Piker becomes like Cat Abu Ghazala.

Who will stop him?

Well, it would open up a vacuum potentially that we could seize upon.

People like us could seize upon, I should say,

But I think that's already happening.

I think we are actually seizing upon it.

But I also think I also think.

Can I tell you guys the truth?

Can I tell you the truth?

You don't you don't want to hear this, Mr.

Krabs.

I know you don't want to hear it.

A san piker

Privately.

I'm not saying I have confirmation of this 'cause I don't, but I just know it for a fact.

He thinks we are overall

Good.

He uh supports and sympathizes with us.

He'll never say it in public, but he does.

Because he sees us as a strengthening of the left wing position to his left and therefore a way for him to look more moderate and alleviate pressure away from him.

He, for some reason, I don't know why he does.

I can't tell you I have an explanation.

I'm just telling you, this is like an objective consequence.

This is this is the consequence of an objective and impartial analysis, right?

I've had a lot of time to think about it.

Here's the truth.

He

He wants to forward a distinctly left-wing agenda.

He's doing it in a horrible way, by the way, but he wants to do that.

And that puts pressure on him by the moderate, liberal, whatever you want to call them, right, within the Democratic Party.

And we take a lot of that pressure off and therefore make it possible for him to maneuver in the way that he is.

And um

That's why he's been taking more liberties, you know, defending the proletarian dictatorship and so on and so on.

Uh I want you to be smart and understand.

What's going on there?

I'm also convinced that when he fedjacketed Jackson, he actually believed.

That Jackson was a Fed.

It wasn't because he was trying to portray Jackson as a Fed while knowing he wasn't.

He actually did believe that.

Because he didn't even have information.

Like he did he genuinely had no uh understanding.

But um

He should be paying dues then.

Um

I'll tell you this.

Uh if he if he broke with the Democrats and started endorsing just if he and some I don't I don't even care if he formed his own party, if he formed his own strategy, it doesn't matter what it is.

If he went dark in some kinda way,

Uh

Holy fuck, the the left wing in America would

Lose the platform that it has now within the hegemony, but it would free up so much energy that would go into cultivating, yes, something less powerful than the Democratic Party, but something also on the map.

If ACP can be put on the map with what limited resources and capacity that we have, imagine all the energy that could be freed up that's now being tied in with the attempting to win the ground of the Democratic Party, win hegemony over the imagine if that was freed up and put into cultivating something.

Something distinct and independent, it would free up a lot.

But ultimately, I'm going to just circle back to the theme of my writing of communism in the post-MAGA age and explain.

Um

And explain uh

Why maybe there's hesitancy doing that?

Because

I think Hassan Piker, like everyone else in America, doesn't understand how do you go from the individual consciousness to collective existence?

How do you create a collective movement?

How do you make a movement?

How do you make a movement?

How do you make a party?

How do you make an organization that's independent from the hegemony?

How do you actually do that?

And that's why I want to emphasize the systems theory.

The hegemony is rooted in something.

Like why is there the like you have two extremes, conformity with the system and forming a retarded LARP cult?

I don't think the A C P is a LARP cult, actually.

I think there are tendencies within our online movement which would, if given dominance, turn us into that.

Thankfully, they don't have dominance.

But uh

We are something unique for sure.

And it's sad when people don't understand that and see the potential in it.

But for certain there are disti there are two distinct tendencies.

Online retard cults not online retard offline retard cults usually.

and full conformity with the system.

And

He doesn't understand there's a golden stalinist path, which is we need to

Free the system

In some sense, it's not that we should fight the system.

We need to free the system.

From the institutional constraints that had been put upon it.

We need more systems.

We need to let millions of systems bloom.

We need to unleash the contradictions within the system.

We need to liberate the rogue

System Systemic rogue tendencies.

Waiting to run wild.

And

Well, instead of conformity, and it this is like my dialectical inversion of our immediate.

Intuition

You wanna know what it is?

Here's here is what it is.

You see?

Ones if you understand.

Sue is, what's up?

Like, that's how I arrived at the infrared vision, in a way, when it comes to domestic politics.

That's where it came.

It's like, that was my aha moment.

It's these experts and glasses wearers who are the fucking LARPers and the subjectivists.

That's the whole thing.

They're the ones larping.

And to free ourselves from their LARP, we have to

Tap into something.

We have to risk.

having some skin in the game, can't simply conform to the system.

Isn't this such an interesting contrast with Landian acceleration?

Which says let's just fully embrace the deterritorialization of capital and whatever.

It's like, well, no, it's actually we have to raise our fist.

We have to break the hegemony.

To unleash the productive forces, we have to raise our fist, we have to risk having a specific subjectivity, a specific psychology.

Have some fucking skin in the game.

No it doesn't mean be a LARP cult.

What it means.

It means to risk the process, the difficult and long process, of aligning our individual subjective consciousness with objective collective principles.

All the difficulties and turmoil, both subjectively and objectively, that that entails.

We have to raise our fist.

And uh

Repeat the accursed origins.

of what we call a personality.

Um the age-old critique of you is you're taking revolutionary discourse and mobilizing it towards a reformist theory of change I like better but not communist politicians.

Dude.

You see, this is like a retarded response to Hassan Piker, to to be honest.

There are no communist politicians and uh

Dude, what do you mean elect communist politicians?

If you think that there is a capacity to elect communist politicians

Greek Communist 134.

Thankfully, it's not an ACP guy.

ACP guys are LARP.

Game decisions right now, and I'm simply standing ahead of it.

You're delusional about what the average person thinks about coming.

And then, okay, so Mr.

Krabs is saying I will grant that Hassan refuted the Hassan sorry, the Hamas rape co uh hoax.

Which is definitely an illiberal tendency.

Okay, there we go.

I mean, what so?

What are you saying?

You're saying, well, why did he endorse Graham Plattner?

Dude, why did he endorse Kamala fucking Harris?

Do you know what I mean?

Like, why did he endorse Biden?

What who do you think you're arguing with?

Like, you don't even know what I'm saying.

Communism, let alone socialism.

Okay.

It's it's My point is that he should be excised.

For what though?

What are you saying?

I hope he's kicked out.

Are you at yeah, he's he will hate that I'm saying this.

Of course I hope Hassan is kicked out of the Democrat and he fails to continue being there because it'll force him to be independent.

and face the consequences of

Which would be he'd be twice as m prominent as he is now, I think.

It's so shocking.

That's your argument.

Okay, okay, you should have just said that.

Confuse the fuck out of me.

What Kami says, thank you for the 10 gifted subs.

Anyway, I'm I do think that it's it's silly to constantly have to duke it up yeah because if it happens he will become you know a force in US politics You know Yannis Veroufakis is super unprincipled.

I don't like that guy, but when he told Hassan you know hey, you should directly just be involved you should directly you know run for office or something and then Hassan's like well no no I'm just a streamer.

It's like this is the thing I'm not saying to glaze Hassan.

I'm not saying that don't don't fucking do that.

I'm saying you know

The main problem with him is that he lacks self-confidence, actually.

Can we just say that?

He doesn't have confidence.

He doesn't recognize that the door is open and the whole the fucking there's no wizard behind the curtain.

Yes, yes, you can go from a streamer

To being a political figure.

It does it's there's no there's no like, you know, PhD of fucking politics that exists.

It's totally an open door.

Oh, with my left flank when isn't Trump the one who proved that?

I'm getting fucking yelled at non-stop by endlessly more powerful forces that actually do have some long-standing impact in American political discourse.

We're talking about American senators.

You know why I've been so charitable to Piker?

It's honestly some type of Shiite.

Sectarian Tribalism.

I found out he's an Olivier

Did you know he's an Olivi?

I was upset for a long time.

I didn't know he was Olivi.

I didn't know that.

It made me upset.

I started being angry and I I went through all the stages of grief.

He's descended from the Kizil Bosh.

His family's from the Kizilbash.

And

They it's like the

Yeah, I don't know.

I mean

I had all the stages of grief when I found out, but but then I eventually I had to realize, okay.

You know?

No, it makes total sense though.

The whole thing is that he's a Shiite.

That's the secret, the whole illiberal tendency that like the whole th he's doing a tik he's trying to do it to Kia, it's wrong.

He's misguided.

I think he's misguided.

Hey, shoot me.

I think he's misguided.

And American.

I I don't know.

I don't know.

I'm not saying I know that for a fact, but I kind of think he's misguided.

Representatives in both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party were talking about mainstream media that is like actively calling me a threat to not only just the Democratic Party's future, but also the future of this country.

And you're over here telling me about like some fucking guy who works for the ACP or something.

Yelling at me because I don't subscribe to a movement that I think there's by the way, there's only two people that work for the ACP.

I don't know what he's talking about here, what he's referring to.

That will lean into whatever the algorithm presents as the new thing to focus on, which is what the ACP did for fucking years, leaning into Andrew Tate, leaning into all of these red-pilled guys, as though that was.

Uh that was the true uh he he's not talking about the ACP, he's talking about the founders of the ACP, to be clear.

True way to to reach across the aisle to the fucking working class.

Okay?

It's ridiculous.

They call me fucking tailless.

That is literally textbook taillism.

That is literally what Lenin extensively wrote about.

As a matter of fact, it's really not, though.

Again, I don't know.

I had to keep explaining this.

Talism was about.

Tendencies within the masses

That were classified on the basis of their relationship to revolutionary.

Action.

not openness to

Polyamorous relationships

Like backward the backward part of the masses were the ones who were hesitant when it came to like, you know, um blowing up royal palaces, and the advanced ones were ready to storm.

Storm the capitals and seize them.

It it wasn't about oh, the advanced are more into um

Uh

What is it called?

Pegging.

Is it called pegging?

When the woman has a strap on and goes to town or whatever.

Is that what it's one i it somewhat?

Yeah, that's what it's called.

Yeah, that's not what it means to be more advanced or backward.

So when you're tailing the masses, it's not as though, oh, you're just um.

You are feeding into the tendencies which I regard as toxic or bigoted or something, that has nothing to do with Taillism.

Before we talk about the, you know, the red pillar Andrew Tate thing, let's just get that out of the let's just clear the air on that.

Matter of fact, Lenin straight up wrote about Taillism, opportunism, when it came to reactionary anti-Semitism.

He straight up said if we were Taillists, we would focus on one of the most prominent movements at the time, which was anti-Semitism.

Yeah, but no one was doing that.

So Lenin was engaging in polemics with.

Taylor's of the, you know, more Menshevik.

Uh economistic variety.

I know the geese people think economism is class reductionism.

It's you know, what's what the intersectional Hillary supporters accused Bernie Brose of, but that's not true.

Economism rejected the need for revolutionary political change entirely in favor of this, you know, more Jehu type economic, whatever, fatalism.

But um

The Talus uh would justify their position on the basis of making reference to those tendencies among the masses which were the most politically

uh unprepared and passive when it came to revolutionary action.

And so when he was polemicizing with these nerdy, you know, urban shitlibs, which is what they were, intelligentsia shitlib, intelligentsia conformis, he said, by your logic, why don't we just simply if you're justifying your position by saying, well, the masses aren't ready, so let's just generalize this one tendency among the masses when there are other tendencies, he goes, why not just join the pogroms then?

It's not as though Lenin was arguing against Marxists who advocated for pogroms.

He was using that as a rhetorical device to polemicize with urban shitlib opportunist conformists.

So let's be clear.

Lenin was not accusing anti-Semites, quote unquote, of being tailless.

He was using.

As a rhetorical device posing the hypothetical of, well, why shouldn't we just support pogroms then?

To put to be clear, it's like imagine if Lenin was an American who lived in 2026.

Lenin would simply tell Hassan, Hassan Piker, you say that we need to support the Democratic Party because that's where Americans are at right now.

But by this logic, why don't we just support

Um Trump, because Trump was elected in twenty twenty four and clearly he reflects the reality of US politics the most.

Or instead of Trump whippets, well, Hassan, if you're gonna make your argument that we need to work within the Democratic Party because that's where the the masses are at.

Why don't we just support Whippets?

Because that's also a popular trend among the masses.

So it's a rhetorical argument Lenin was employing.

Um

He wasn't referencing anyone who actually was justifying or supporting pogroms or advocating for any.

I don't think Hassan will be tipping scales in this election, so why even care?

He won't, but the reason I care is because I think there's a certain quantum of energy that needs to be put in.

to the movement that the ACP wants to be part of.

And I think

Hassan could not be decisive when it comes to

Shifting US politics.

I agree, he he can't be.

But he could be decisive in accelerating the development of independent forms of organization and politics in this country if we have a long-term view ahead and think in terms of years or maybe decades even rather than the next election cycle.

I'm a very long-term thinker.

You need to appreciate my sage-like patience, like a Buddhist sage-like patience.

Because, frankly, um

Frankly.

Imagine how exhausted and tired I am of this discourse.

It's like nothing new is under the sun.

We've been arguing about this since twenty sixteen.

But

I have to accept that if I want golden nuggets

of novelty.

But I want something to happen that's new.

I have to appreciate the fact.

That

You require a very meticulous discernment.

There are things that are new about this specific cycle of Democrat shilling which deserve our attention and special consideration.

That's all.

Yes, the same mistake is being made.

As was made in 2020, you know, we heard the same yeah, but there's something new happening.

this time.

And we should wherever we can, wherever we can, nothing new is under the sun and nothing ever happens, I agree.

But wherever we can, let's have a meticulous discernment.

Regarding those golden nuggets of novelty.

That are rearing themselves, and let's do our best to cultivate them and draw them out and accelerate their development.

It's not the same if you pay enough attention.

That's all I'm saying.

And with a long-term view in mind, you know, let's think about this.

From the persp what could change here?

Potentially.

I think conditions are ripe for the possibility.

that Piker

could break with the Democratic Party.

Could not necessarily will, but could.

This time it didn't happen in 2020, it didn't happen in 2016.

But

Didn't happen in twenty four, obviously, but um

Maybe it can happen.

Maybe it can happen sooner than we think.

And when it does happen, we need to take it very seriously.

That's all I'm saying.

We need, you know, would we prefer everyone to be correct right now?

Yeah, we would, but.

But we don't control the time in which this thing unfolds.

All we could do is be correct now, for sure, but

While we're correct here and now, which we are, ACP is a beacon of correctness on everything.

Let's be very meticulous and discerning when it comes to tendencies that can be observed outside of our

Bunker.

Blaming Jews instead of focusing on class contradictions, instead of focusing on class-first politics.

He literally wrote it.

These people who routinely yell at me, calling me a fucking talist for the liberal, Zionist, Democratic Project or whatever the fuck, are themselves engaging in the actual reactionary TALIS uh mentality.

How though?

But how?

For example, let's look at the most egregious crimes we committed during the Andrew Tate era.

when Andrew Tate was prominent in stirring so much controversy.

What we did is ex we exercised an intelligence, meaning a discrimina a discriminate attitude toward the online phenomena.

Jackson chose to emphasize and highlight, for example, some of the correct foreign policy stances that Andrew Tate took.

Fo trying to focus on yes, pro-Russia, pro-D PRK, you know.

making that the object of the discourse.

And then when Jackson went on Fresh and Fitz

And he was kinda cornered about, you know, should women vote or not.

Now

Again, I keep repeating the story of how I talked to Jackson after and he was like, fuck, that was hard.

Like, he was cornered.

Not because it's hard to say, yes, of course, women should vote.

Of course, we know women should vote.

Okay.

Like, what are you stupid?

Are you retarded?

Like, do you, what you think me and Jackson think women shouldn't vote?

It's like, no, of course we know women should vote.

All right.

But.

How do you win in that scenario?

How do you not look like a hysterical?

uh weak, you know, in a f how do you not like

How do you win that audience, right?

And

The way he tried to maneu he tried to maneuver it in a specific way that, you know, avoided making himself appear as though he's like, you know, this blue pilled whatever.

But it's the same when it comes to the JQ and all these other things.

It's like you have to you can't simply just

You do have to

Take into account the per the optics and whether people perceive you in such a way that, okay, you're just some blue-pilled whatever, right?

It's not it's actually an art.

It's not easy.

It's not simple.

It's not tail tailism.

It's something much more difficult.

And something that requires a lot more intelligence in the true sense of like uh exercising discrimination.

Um

Cantrezzi with the five, what's up bro?

Appreciate you.

In any case, um

Let me continue.

So no it wasn't tail we weren't tailing the phenomena.

We were simply

Again, exercising this.

Let's circle back.

Meticulous.

discernment with respect to tendencies that exist in any given viral contradiction or controversy that manifests itself in the discourse or in the information space, how do we exploit that in a way

that accelerates or accentuates the development of things.

Uh in such a way that leads to the kind of opening of a space within information space for communism.

How do you do that?

And this is the art we've mastered, you know.

And people confuse that for Teilism, but it's not.

It's like more like a translation art.

It's an art of translation.

It's not an art of pandering and no, no, we're trying to translate.

Because we kn you know, the irony with Piker is that he needs to understand something.

Like, this wisdom he thinks he has, where he's like, no, no, I'm a realist.

And I'm not a sectarian.

You know, the geese magazine people make the same argument.

Instead of being a sectarian cult, let's be realistic about politics.

It's like, no, no, no, the ones who have mastered this logic is me and Jackson.

Like, we've mastered it.

We know it more than any.

We know that you can't just directly impose your ideology on reality.

You have to discern in objective phenomena.

Th the rational alignment.

Uh between that and whatever truth you've arrived at subjectively.

Like, it's indirect.

The relationship is indirect, not direct.

So you the the art of maneuvering information space or drawing out tendencies within information space that open the space for

Revolutionary consciousness is an indirect art.

It's not dire you can't just simply shout communist slogans because nobody understands what that fucking means, or they don't understand the substance it's made of.

Um so we know we un we MAGA communists are the ones who understand this better than anyone else.

It's pre but it's precisely why we have

Uh we don't need to use the Democratic Party as a vehicle by which we acquire a pulse on the real world and reality.

Because the Democratic Party is itself a retarded cult.

It's not reality.

It's a Harvey Weinsteinian Epsteinian kind of cult of personality and some subjective whims and fancies of various different people.

It's not, it's not actually a system.

Systems are progressive.

Systems are great.

They're impersonal.

Systems are fine.

Democratic Party is not a system.

It's actually like a fief.

It's a collection of different fiefdoms of these boomers.

It's like a boomer prison planet.

It's not a system.

Systems are good, actually.

Um systems are progressive from the Marxist standpoint.

Because they just work impersonally, right?

That's not what the Democratic Party is.

In any case, um

Is anyone sur one's if you're surprised that on my first stream back, I'm saying the things I'm saying.

Um ones if I've surprised you in some way.

Maybe I have.

If you weren't target, you would you would never have made the comment.

I would have actually, because I just get the sense that when they talk about Talism and advanced versus backward, they're not actually talking about any logic of politics or revolutionary political change.

They're talking about this specific

neoliberal or whatever you call it, understanding of like how do we turn people into enlightened and open people who are just like totally above any attachment to, you know, oh, well, I'm just no longer masculine.

I just gonna paint my nails and

I'm I'm gonna transcend

All determinations and just like become this like open, like you know, hippie or something.

Like, that's not, but that's not what backward or advanced means to Lenin.

That has nothing to do with the discriminatory intelligence by which Lenin classifies things on a basis of advanced or backward.

He's not saying, like.

Lena Dunham is advanced and Kid Rock is backward.

Like, that's he's Lennon would probably say that both of them would be in a ditch, maybe, right?

But he's not saying like one he's not saying, like, um, you know, purple-haired

Uh, you know, purple-haired video game characters, like that's advanced, and like Gamergate is backward.

Like, that's not, no, that's not, he's not saying that.

He's saying the backward people are the ones that are passive conformists when it comes to politics, and the advanced ones are the rowdy masses who are ready to, like, you know, throw Molotov cocktails at, you know, I don't know, at the police barracks or something.

So, um,.

He y you you need to under but leftists don't un they they think backwards in advanced as like like advanced as like the Obama era march of history, where it's like, Oh, we're having gay marriage and abortions for all and now it's like um men

Don't need to have a ball sack anymore, you can just kind of

Detach your ball sack and put it in a

Put it in a uh wireless charging pod and walk around without balls.

We don't have to have balls anymore.

We're past that.

That's so outdated.

We we're now in an era where we can just put our balls in um

A bulb compartment?

And walk around with no nuts.

That was like the Obama idea of like, you know, we're just gonna transcend all determinations.

It's just we're just like totally past it, you know?

That's what it means to advance.

It's like some Fukuyama, like crazy lip tard nonsense.

It's like it has nothing to do with communism.

It has nothing to do with Marxism.

I'm sorry.

You know?

We're going to detach our balls and put them in a wireless.

Put them in a.

Our garage

What are they called?

Electric chargers, you know, for like our electric vehicles.

It work the E the same thing you put in your E V, you can detach your balls and put it on the wireless charger in your garage and you ne you don't even need it.

You can you can put it back on or you could take it off or you can buy new ones that have

different color gradients.

You can get purple balls.

You don't need regular, you can get purple ones, you can get all different ones that reflect your personality.

You can have for Christmas, you can get ones that are that look like the Christmas the Christmas ornaments you guys ever see the ownage pranks the guy who does prank calls where he called the tattoo shop as like he pretended to be like a Vietnamese guy and he uh he called the tattoo shop and he's like

He's like, Can you do a tattoo where you uh

You uh it was like it was around Christmas time, right?

And he he's like, My girlfriend wants uh for Christmas time.

Tattoo a tree on me, like on my torso, like a giant.

I don't know why I still find it so funny.

Tattoo on like a giant Christmas tree, and then uh tattoo my balls as like two uh Christmas ornaments, like you know, the circuit, the spherical ornaments you put on a Christmas tree.

He's like, Yeah, tattoo them to look like that, and he like he kept the tattoos up.

Uh, no, we don't do that.

He kept calling them like over and over again.

Uh, asking asking to do that.

I don't know.

I found it so funny.

It's an Arab humor, I guess.

Uh it's just like shit Arabs five twenty, I don't know.

Anyway, back to Fukuyama.

Uh yeah, that's how leftists understand progress in the Marxist tradition.

They just superimpose this like fukuyama um vision of progress and assume that's what Marxists meant by advanced or backward and it's not.

Anyway, um did we endorse or tail the Hendrotate phenomenon?

No, honestly, you could, you know what you could say?

You could say we are just radically indifferent.

There's actually a scary indifference we have.

We don't, we really don't care.

We really don't care about anything except communism.

Like, there's this radical indifference where we're just like, yes, we will try to.

Exploit any contradictions we can to advance.

Our agenda, the Communist agenda, we don't care.

We you think we ever gave a fuck about Andrew Tate?

We ever give a shit about Andrew Tate?

It's like, okay, so many, oh my, so many people are invested in the Andrew Tate phenomena when it was happening in 23 or 22.

They're like, oh, you know, I'm losing my mind.

It's masculinity as a crisis.

Oh my God, should we be masculine or should we be gay or should we be soft?

And what's going on?

A feminist or not feminist?

And we, like the dark Marxists, were sitting in the dark shadows and we're just like, we're gonna kill all of you.

No, that's literally a joke.

That's a joke.

That's not what I'm saying.

But

It's like a it's hu it's humor.

It's like hyperbolic.

I just kind of feel like

From our standpoint, everything is the same in a way.

And we'll just do whatever we can to advance.

Communism

But that's what we care about.

We care about communism.

We care about revolutionary change.

We care about the revolution.

It's all for the revolution.

Everything's for the revolution.

Um, it's like people think I hated feminists.

Actually, I like feminists.

I've always liked feminists.

Actually, I love feminists.

Um, I do like them.

You can say I love them in a way.

I've always

The ones who are angry at me, and that I even if they don't speak to me, they just see me and get angry because I have a beard.

I feel bad for them actually.

I don't hate them.

I feel bad for them.

But the ones, every time I've talked to a feminist offline, I like them.

I like them.

They're cool.

And they're.

Many are stupid, for sure, most probably are stupid, but you know what?

They um

They are um

I don't know what to say.

They're like um

At least they have something to talk about.

You know?

At least they have something to talk about.

Most people don't have anything to talk about.

Endearing, yeah, they're endearing.

At least they're starting somewhere.

2021 Haas rolling his grave.

But where did it come from?

Where did it come from?

That my whole shtick is that I have a problem with women or something.

I feel like that was what happened is that it was invented and it was because I'm masculine or something.

And I taught, I did have a problem with feminine men.

I've always had an issue with the effeminization of males.

I had an issue with nerdy, soy males.

I've always had a problem with them.

And because they're conniving and they're weasel-like and they're just kind of like, Oh, I'm gonna snitch on you Like I've always had of course I've always had a problem with them, but when w the whole thing but what they did, the soy males, what they did is they said, Oh,

You're calling me out?

I'm gonna hide behind women and I'm gonna make this about women.

So then they said, you know what?

Haas actually hates women.

His problem is with women.

I never had a problem with women, but it was imposed on me.

And then it was just they const they constantly said it, and I could I could have reacted in a lot of different ways.

I could have been defensive and been like, No, I'm such an ally.

And then how did I react to it?

I just kind of

I was like

I started trolling, like straight up.

I was like, all right, if you say so and then it was like, Oh, you see?

You see?

He doesn't care.

Actually, I don't care.

Honestly, I don't care what I don't care if what you perceive me this way.

Um

But that like the fact I didn't care was how I be apparently was coded as a misogynist.

Feminine women will absolutely snitch that okay, but women and men are both evil and good is in both the man and the woman.

Is it true or no?

Both the man and the woman is evil and good.

Correct?

I'm just saying it's a lack of virtue that makes a man.

Part of being virtuous as a man is to be.

Be a man.

If a grandma falls down the stairs and a guy just walks past her, would it not be a reproach?

When someone would say, you're not a man, a real man would help the grandma.

Like, there's a normative component to it that absolutely is moral.

And I don't know why I have to explain this because most people understand it, but I I guess I have to intellectually explain it, quote unquote.

Oh, there's a lot of women who are evil, I agree.

There is good and evil among both man and woman.

There's nothing about women that makes them less evil.

They're just prettier.

Yeah.

Uh

I w I kind of feel like I'm like a Brian Griffin liberal.

You know?

It's crazy I'm saying that shit.

Holy fuck, 2026.

I'm saying the craziest shit.

I'm not a g I'm not a liberal, but I just I feel like I never

I feel like there's like a type of cool liberal who's just like

Who's just kind of like neutral.

And I never had an issue with those types of people.

I've always had an issue with people who are like actively tripping on some shit.

and are just fucking wrong.

Right?

The most loud and masculine frat boy is way more humble and respectable than any soy male.

That's not true.

Uh and I feel like that dichotomy has broken down.

It used to be true, maybe, but now it's not because masculinity has become a performative thing that dudes everyone is g basically everyone is soy, but now it's like clavicular.

Like there's ways that men have performatively adopted

It's very in a fake, ingenuine way.

They're adopting the appearance of masculine and whatever, and it's like it's totally fake.

And it but it's a simula it's like a cybernetic simulation that is from the internet.

And

That was after Andrew Tate.

That's what started happening.

It became like a performative cybernetic systemization of specific behaviors, mannerisms, appearances, and

The authentic core is gone.

It's like the authentic core has always been just being having skin in the game, having something to live for and die for.

Um

Like Che Guevara, right?

I don't think society is made up of soy males in the way it was in twenty twenty one, though.

Post Andrew Tate, all the soy males have become performative performatively masculine.

And now you you just kinda have to roll your eyes and be like, well, it's not really what I meant when I said stop being a little bitch.

It's really not what I what I meant is like have a fucking backbone and do what's right, stand up for what's right and stop being fake and inauthentic.

start have some honor, you know?

But but what changed something changed and now it's just

Performativity.

And so you can't really complain about it anymore.

In that way.

But we should remember how it was in 2021.

Like, you straight up had dudes that would just be like, I remember on Twitch, it was like that.

It was like, you just have people being like, well, you know.

I personally think that, um

You know, I personally think it's okay for my girlfriend to have a train run on her, and that's progressive.

And that's just like like that used to that was how it was.

Um, there was no self-awareness, like it was like that.

It was like back in uh twenty twenty one it was like

Well, I I personally think that it's extremely insecure to, you know, um

Have nuts.

It's extremely insecure.

What are you, a squirrel?

You don't need nuts.

Put your nuts away

Tug em in.

Stop being so insecure.

It's extremely insecure to think that you have to

Walk around with nuts.

You don't.

You can put them away and shelf put them on a shelf.

It's extremely insecure to um

It was very weird.

It was very weird.

Well

I personally think that I do wear a dress.

Everywhere I go, I wear a dress and nail polish.

That's just what I do.

Like, and it was so serious too.

They were actually serious.

They were like, I'm gonna deconstruct, you know, I'm gonna wear a dress and put a nail polish on.

Uh I'm gonna ban this someone in this fucking chat.

Like, I don't mean I'll ban you for one day and if you ever say anything weird again, it'd be for life.

I should I should do it for life, but, you know, it's like I don't I don't

Yeah, it was just weird.

And it was like there was no self-awareness at all.

At least society now recognizes there's something strange and odd about that.

Twenty twenty one was fucking weird.

I'll tell you that.

It was extremely odd.

Alright guys, I

I have a material incentive to stream more tomorrow.

And

catch up with all of the money I have not made since I've been away.

I'm not going to tell you to crab it up because you've crabbed it up a lot for this stream.

I'm just going to continue streaming consistently.

Keep crabbing it up in future streams, right?

But also, um I want everyone to clap for me.

I want I want a congratulations, that's all.

Because you know, when people say I'm a grifter, it's like when I wrote that book for 30,000 pages, 30,000 words, shout out to Christian.

I was with Christian in the hotel lobby.

For hours.

He had his laptop, I had my laptop.

He was like, Okay, I'm gonna form I'm gonna add this to infrared.gg.

This is how we're gonna do it.

You know, we're gonna make it look like this.

It's like he was the one hands-on who coded everything.

The design came from Hakan.

You remember the design?

Christian took the design, took that, he put it in infrared.gg and he coded in like everything I wrote.

He was able to put it in the website.

So he helped.

But I did all that.

It was so much effort and so much work.

You know how easy it would have been to pay wall that shit?

Fifteen dollars if you want to read it.

You know we had thousands of unique visitors?

Thousands of unique visitors.

It could pay all that, make money off of it somehow.

What did we do inst what did I do instead?

I said no, it's free.

It's completely free, like no questions asked, it's totally free content.

You guys want me to continue doing that type of shit?

That's how I am.

I want everything to be free.

But you should support me.

Support my ability to just flexibly and freely drop free shit to you.

I feel like I'm an idiot for not paywalling and s somehow monetizing that.

A lot of effort and work went into it on my end.

But I I like to give things for free 'cause I don't like being a cheapskate.

So that's all this I just clap for me, that's it.

Don't you don't have to pay me, but clap for me and say, Haz, congratulations, you're so great for just be giving it for free.

Yeah, I'm gonna be back tomorrow or Monday, hopefully with much more energy.

I'm gonna have more energy, don't worry.

I haven't slept in a long time, as you can tell.

Been weary from travel.

I literally just got off a plane today.

But uh yeah.

I have much more to talk about, but we have plenty of time.

And I think I will be streaming tomorrow.

I think so.

Goodbye.