Our guest this month is Alex McIntyre from the Irrealist Combat League, Revolutionary Education Distro, and formerly the Cooper Point Journal. We discuss the idea of politics as theater, the irrealist rejection of the world as-is, Leninist fan-fiction, theatrical action (in a Brechtian sense) vs. a capitalist digital gesamtkunstwerk, sectariana, “paper sales,” reactionary vs. revolutionary suicide, the unity of popular front opportunism and third period ultraleftism, the organization of pessimism vs. cultic optimism, weird socialism, not being a humorless leftist, Dadaism, the disruption of order, and more.
Music in this episode: Pet Mosquito’s “I Hate Illinois Nazis” (2021), “Don’t Shoot” (2020) and Omnia Sol’s “Walking Around Money” (2022)
Readings in this episode: Stink Ape Resurrection Primer’s “Ello’s Unheard Plea” by Tish Turl and Adam Turl, and Mike Linaweaver’s “Long Hours Away from Home,” both in Locust Review 8 (Summer 2022).
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Locust Radio is hosted by Tish Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Adam Turl. It is produced by Alexander Billet and Omnia Sol. Theme music by Omnia Sol.
