Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
""Sun Yat-sen appears in Haz Al-Din's discourse as the model of the national revolutionary forerunner — and in a specific genealogical argument about Mao.
From the streams
- On the CCP's heritage politics (Political bloodsports debate): "One way the communists legitimized themselves is they would be very big on valorizing Sun Yat-sen... they're trying to go a step beyond that" — the parallel drawn to which icons American socialists should claim (MLK offered as "a great socialist icon").
- The deeper argument (KAMALA TRUMP DEBATE stream), on Du Bois: "Before Sun Yat-sen there were dogmatic Chinese Marxists — carbon copies from Europe — who Sun Yat-sen rejected. And it's the same thing just like with Mao... just like there were dogmatic American Marxists who got the Civil War wrong." The pattern: indigenous revolution begins by rejecting imported dogma and confronting the nation's own history soberly (Du Bois picking up Lenin and Marx, writing Black Reconstruction).
The thesis
Sun Yat-sen anchors Infrared's claim that successful socialism is always national in form: China's revolution legitimized itself through Sun's legacy while surpassing it — exactly what MAGA Communism proposes for 1776 and Lincoln (Tridemism, German Road to Socialism).