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Una Película Bioleninista

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  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...

Giving Antifa Its Due

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  Look up Andy Ngo’s recently published Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy in your local public library’s online catalog, and chances are better than not that, if they even bothered to acquire it, the book has been slapped with the informationally ghettoizing subject heading “conspiracy theories” – a condescending label never applied to books about “Russiagate” or “white privilege”, for two obvious examples. “Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends antifa’s the real enemy,” scoffs Globohomo mouthpiece Alexander Nazaryan in the Los Angeles Times . [1] Clearly, the respectable curators of the information landscape are interested in keeping this book marginalized or hidden – which, naturally, is the first indication that it is worth reading. Many reasonable criticisms can be leveled at Unmasked . Ngo is at best a meat-and-potatoes prose stylist, and Hachette, his publisher, even skimped on providing proper proofreading, an indication that the book was rushed in...