ALT Place Vendôme 17 October 2026, youth holding a placard that says "Vive la Commune 1871"

ALT Youth holding placards in front of burning debris.

ALT Keiran: And I think that there’s traces of that in all of the essays. And I know I’ve said this to you personally, but there’s something about the way you approach any topic, pretty much, it seems, where you assume in advance that there’s this kind of sort of promise of communism in it. You know, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re analyzing. It’s like: I can find it! You know? And I wondered how much of that is temperamental and how much of it is deliberately prefigurative? Or if it’s at all possible to unpick those two things. Sophie: You just reminded me of the TikTok where the woman says, “I love soup. You mean to tell me you hid a little bit of food in a bunch of water? I’ll find it!!” I guess that is kind of me, isn’t it: with the desire for communism-in-everything. It’s true, I can actually watch an episode of Love Island and be like, “Aha! the desire for communism.” But I’m right, though. Keiran: Yeah. No doubt.