Esoteric Brezhnevism

  Neoreactionary Bloody Shovel blogger Spandrell has written extensively on the topic of Bioleninism, the twenty-first century’s answer to now-quaint Marxism-Leninism [1]. As Clown World Chronicles author Vince McLeod summarizes the phenomenon, it consists of “social rejects coming together to force their will on society at large” [2], with the aspiration to a dictatorship of dysfunctional, defective, and low-status people taking the place within Bioleninism that the dictatorship of the proletariat takes in Communism. Further accounting for the rise of such societal currents is Edward Dutton’s discussion of the proliferation of “spiteful mutants” as a result of weakened natural-selection pressures in the modern world [3]. Decades before Bioleninism had a name, however, this dysgenic strain of revolutionism received striking cinematic representation in the 1993 Spanish film Acciόn Mutante . Co-written and directed by Álex de la Iglesia, “an important nutter in the history of Spa...