The Myth of 'Patriotic Socialism'

um

to be honest the patriotic socialist

label

when we actually get to sit down and

think about it it's lame as fuck okay

we are not

patriotic socialist that's like you know

because i was thinking about it and

it really sounds like some shit bernie

or aoc would call themselves to pander

to the fucking you know the democratic

party or some shit it's just it's a name

that sounds lame as fuck all right

you know don't identify with the labels

the enemy throws i mean the if the enemy

keeps calling us

you know uh

i don't know

if they call us uh

you know people who ain't worth shit or

something like you know i mean you don't

identify with what the slander and

smears of your enemy is if our enemy

calls us a bunch of dumb fucks we don't

just go oh then we're dumbfucks okay

then we are back we don't do that shit

right and we have to sit down and really

think and reflect if really do we want

to be known as the patriotic socialists

i mean

you know the reason why that's such i

mean okay look i don't mind if some

people are gonna identify this way but

uh i'm gonna give you a few reasons why

i don't like the name patriotic

socialism i'm just gonna list them off

i'm gonna tell you what kind of my gripe

and my beef with that specific

label really is

so first off

what i really don't like about it

is

um it's it sounds opportunistic right it

sounds like we're trying to pander to

something or we're trying to sound

reason like we're trying to like um

appear less

uh we're trying to like i don't like any

name that tries to dull the communism

effect right like for example that's

what democratic socialism does right

democratic socialism is where you kind

of just say oh i'm not a cow i'm not

like that scary stalin guy i'm a

democratic socialist except you know we

don't do that shit over here you know

what i mean we don't do that shit we're

we're communists with a capital c

understand we are capital c

communist with absolutely nothing to

apologize for and nothing to cover for

the patriotic socialism thing sounds

like opportunism to me right it sounds

like you're trying to you're trying to

apologize recover for some shit right

and we don't got anything to apologize

for we are communists we are communists

with a capital c we're going to embrace

that we're going to own that okay the

second thing i don't like about it

is that it it kind of sounds like this

weird form of revisionism which is

actually the intended effect that's why

it's a form of slander and it's a smear

right i mean bernstein had his

evolutionary socialism all this kind of

shit we don't need to like add all these

you know um

prefixes and all these like wacky

combinations and shit we are communists

we're brilliant we're marxist leninists

we're communists we don't have to

complicate that and make you know make

it sound like we're trying to you know

um

it just sounds like some revision is

bullshit right uh patriotic socialism

right

and

they specifically

threw that name on us to give that

effect

i want to keep stressing that and and uh

you know emphasizing that fact they've

done it because they're trying to make

it seem like we are just like this new

thing that came out of nowhere we're

like oh those are the pat socks you know

they're trying to fucking put us in a

box that we're not in so

patriotic socialism sounds like some

shit that bernie or aoc would say if we

went to war with russia or china you

know like that sounds like something

they're gonna identify with because

they're fucking projecting they're just

projecting right

okay

um you know nothing too is like i don't

i'm not really a fan of this kind of

like

post world war two wacky kind of third

position type of thing where it's like

oh we're going to be national

syndicalists and we're going to be this

and we're going to be that and i i'm

just not on board with it i don't really

you know i don't really partake or

particularly like it myself right yeah

and also they like how it's kind of like

national socialism but with the

patriotic prefix instead of the national

one just another way to d you know

delegitimize us and um

make us try and make us look bad and

shit like that

and then um

so yeah i'm really not a big fan of that

i'm really not a big fan of the

patriotic socialism thing just

and i'm the reason i'm saying this is

because

i started to think about how and how

many ways are we gaslighted by our

fucking enemies it's just like adopting

shit that wasn't our original intention

but we just adopted it out of spite

again i don't want to fucking do that

right it was never our intention as

infrared to be

patriotic and then this is another thing

i want to get at is that

i also don't like how

parochial it sounds

and what i mean by parochial i mean like

you know infrared is really about

zaha hadid

ps5 energy type shit i mean look at the

background we got right now i mean look

at this shit you know what i mean this

shit is professional level you

understand

so we never wanted to be like have this

effect

or have this kind of imagery of just

being like you know

we don't want to be this kind of like

philistine parochial thing where it's

like we are trying to be luddites that

are hiding from the effects of modernity

actually dugan actually

it's really surprising that dugan is the

one who raised this point but one of the

showrunners linked this to me

and it's interesting because it's like

dugan himself pointed this out dugan

pointed out how like you know

conservatives in the united states

they're kind of like luddites right they

kind of have this thing where they're

just trying to resist the great reset

and they're just trying to resist this

nefarious agenda

and

what i think we should be about instead

of that is just be like

we're gonna have our own great reset you

know what i mean like the elites are too

weak to implement that agenda they're

too hypocritical

and we're not gonna be scared of this

new era right

and um

i don't i don't i really think

so the patriotic socialism thing first

of all it's redundant right because

that's what marxism leninism was about

marxism leninism in the 20th century was

100 percent patriotic

the thing we have to come to terms with

and the type of thing we have to kind of

make peace with or you know wrap our

heads around somehow is this issue of

globalism right this idea of the globe

of globality this abstraction of

globality right and that's kind of where

things get a little more complicated i

don't really like

the label patriotic socialism

because the patria of patriotism is for

the country of modernity right that's

what it is it's the country it's the

french republic that's what it is that

kind of seems a little outdated today

right today you don't really have

the patria

as much as you have these

these um

regional globe these different forms of

globality these different globalities

there's a russian world there's a

european world there's a latin world

whatever there's it's it's about these

uh

globes right which is a very different

thing than a country so to speak it's a

civilization and it's a big space

it's a polarity yeah a civilization

state if you want right and

you know i don't like

i want us to be worthy of the era i

don't want us to be reacting to the era

or somehow trying to resist it in vain

what infrared has always been about is

being worthy of the era we now find

ourselves in and the era that we're

living in right so it's about a new era

right

and

that doesn't mean we're going to be like

progressives right but one of the main

things that marxism was always about was

embracing the inevitable change

that's on the horizon right instead of

taking refuge in the comfortable and

familiar forms of the past you have to

somehow embrace the fact

that

you know this future that's on the

horizon in some sense one way or another

is inevitable right