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! colspan="2" |type=<small>"Online collaborative encyclopedia" (self-declared)<br>Hate blog</small>
|founding_date=<small>October 2022</small>|founder=<small>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/User:WikiSysop Jucheguevara]|num_users=<small>500> (including inactive users and spam accounts)<br> ~5 (including active, good-faith users and the founder)|url=<small>infrawiki.us</small>|espoused_ideology=<small>[[Patriotic socialism]]<br>[[MAGA Communism]]<br>[[Neo-fascism]]<br>[[Third position|Third-position]]<br>[[Trumpism]]<br>[[National Bolshevism]]<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/National_Bolshevism National Bolshevism] ''InfraWiki''</ref><br>[[White supremacy]]<br>[[American nationalism]]</small>|language=<small>English}}
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'''InfraWiki'''<ref group="note">Its namesake being the media collective [[Infrared (media collective)|Infrared]], whose ideology this site explicitly maintains.</ref> is a [[Far-right politcs|far-right]] "[[MAGA Communism|MAGA Communist]]" hate blog founded in October 2022 by a member of [[ProleWiki]] following his ban.<ref name=":0">[https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/InfraWiki InfraWiki] on ''[[ProleWiki]]''</ref> The site maintains virulently hateful and conspirationalist views, and has largely removed itself from [[Marxism]] entirely.
 
==History==
 
===Founding===
InfraWiki was founded in late 2022 by ex-[[ProleWiki]] administrator Jucheguevara<ref name=":2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JOmnogaNSE&t=292s Adding Midwestern Marx interview to the wiki] (4:52 in the video) (January 7, 2023) ''[[YouTube]]''
</ref><ref group="note">Whose username on InfraWiki is "WikiSysop".</ref> a few weeks after his ban from the latter site after his attempts at subverting it were discovered and its resultant rejection of [[Patriotic socialism]] and "MAGA Communism", of which were persuasions Jucheguevara adhered to.<ref name=":0" /> InfraWiki was first announced on October 4, 2022, and was made accessible as a website later that month. Its main editors are largely followers of the Infrared media collective.<ref name=":3">[https://infrawiki.substack.com/p/infrawiki-coming-soon InfraWiki: Coming Soon] (October 4, 2022) ''InfraWiki’s Newsletter''</ref>
 
=== Later events===
Around New Year's Eve of 2022–2023, InfraWiki was heavily vandalized by a number of different online groups, including ProleWiki editors,<ref name=":1">[https://lemmygrad.ml/post/475280 InfraWiki is being raided] (January 1, 2023) ''[[Lemmygrad]]''</ref> [[Left-communism|Left-communists]] from the "[[Revolutionary Technical Committee]]", and [[Hoxhaism|Hoxhaists]] who coordinated their actions on [[Discord]].<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=1939 Revision of the InfraWiki main page on January 1, 2023]</ref><ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/InfraWiki:Vandalism InfraWiki:Vandalism]</ref> Following this event, the sole administrator of InfraWiki, Jucheguevara, completely prohibited editing of the site for a week, and would only later allow editing rights again, albeit to less than a dozen editors who were hand-picked by the administrator.<ref name=":1" /> Despite these measures, the site remains a persistent target of vandalism, largely because of its hateful views.<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/User:Neostalinistprop Page on Vandalism within InfraWiki]</ref>
 
== Structure==
 
===Social media===
InfraWiki has accounts on many media platforms, including the alt-right sites [[TruthSocial]] and [[Parler]]. InfraWiki's accounts have often faced banning or other restrictions due to the prevalence of reactionism, at times to the extent of [[hate speech]], found in their rhetoric.<ref>[https://infrawiki.substack.com/p/an-update An update ...] (November 23, 2022) ''InfraWiki’s Newsletter''</ref>
 
=== Ideology===
InfraWiki, like its parent organization, Infrared, espouses third-positionist and other reactionary ideology, claiming to both reject the "CIA's Synthetic Left, who are ultra-leftists" and the right-wing groupings of "fiscal conservatism" and "neoconservatism". Despite this, InfraWiki mostly takes traditionally far-right positions. They reject the [[Land-back movement|land-back]], [[LGBTQ+]], and [[Feminism|feminist]] movements entirely as a plot by the "deep state" for the "feminization of the working masses".<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php?title=Feminization_of_the_Working_Masses&redirect=no Feminization of the Working Masses] ''InfraWiki''</ref> They also adopt [[Transphobia|transphobic]] positions, claiming that "transgenderism" is a "mental disorder".<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Transgenderism Transgenderism] ''InfraWiki''</ref>
 
InfraWiki supports so-called "[[actually existing socialism]]" — that being [[People's Republic of China|China]], [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnam]], [[Lao People's Democratic Republic|Laos]], [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]], and [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea|North Korea]] — as well as the modern Russian Federation as an "anti-imperialist" power. However, they also view [[Nazism]] as being a form of Socialism.<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Socialism Socialism] ''InfraWiki''</ref> The site itself acts as a means to augment the current personality cults venerating Patriotic socialist figures such as [[Caleb Maupin]] and [[Infrared (media collective)|Haz Al-Din]], with their respective works and views on matters being regularly quoted and otherwise metioned in their articles, and the site's logo and name directly emulating those of the Infrared collective.
 
=== Content and sourcing ===
From its very inception, InfraWiki has denounced fundamental etiquette such as maintaining an encyclopedic tone and notability requirements as "liberal snobbery" which "excludes any coverage of genuine online phenomena".<ref name=":3" /><ref group="note">This view did not originate from nowhere. Indeed, if applying the policy of Wikipedia, nearly all aspects of "MAGA Communism" and its promoters would not be covered, as they almost always take place within an informal context (such as social-media platforms, most commonly Twitter) and the "ideology" which "MAGA Communists" espouse is not only resonated in these ad-hoc environments, they are often extremely vulgar in tone.</ref> This stance is heavily reflected in InfraWiki's articles, with them regularly containing slang or vulgar wording,<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Right-wing_politics Right-wing politics] ''InfraWiki''
 
''"[..] a predominantly white nationalist movement consisting of chronically online virgins who live in their mother's basement and wank to loli hentai every 5 minutes."''</ref> and the subjects of the articles commonly being little more than summations of live streams, [[YouTube]] videos, and other media which is itself trivial for the struggles of the working class.
 
InfraWiki uses extremely poor and unacademic sources as well. They regularly employ informal posts and other content from "MAGA Communist" accounts on YouTube, Telegram, and Twitter. The site advises far-right and conspiratorialist outlets such as [[Conservapedia]], [[KeyWiki]], and [[Wikispooks]] be used on their site,<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Resources_for_finding_sources Resources for finding sources] ''InfraWiki''</ref> and uses the content of far-right corporate news outlets such as [[Fox News]] as sources (including those delivered by the Neo-fascist pudit [[Tucker Carlson]]).<ref>[https://infrawiki.us/index.php/January_6_protest January 6 protest] ''InfraWiki''</ref> Despite their claimed ideological opposition to both [[Wikipedia]] and ProleWiki, the administrator and editorship of InfraWiki regularly and openly copy-and-paste content from those respective sites (ProleWiki in particular).<ref name=":2" /> Many examples of InfraWiki's "sources" include little more than single tweets InfraWiki editors have posted which contain no sources themselves.<ref>https://infrawiki.us/index.php/Rage_Against_the_War_Machine#cite_note-2</ref>
 
== See also ==
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