Can you guys explain accelerationism to me?

Can you guys explain accelerationism to me?

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Right Accelerationism : Use capitalism to destroy everything until nations and the global liberal order collapses into smaller units. Use technology to subvert the mainstream narrative and foster conflict. Survival is not an option with our current means.

Left Accelerationism: use Capitalism's destructive power for good and using technology for the engineering of new post-capitalist societies, while still allowing the disintegrating power of capitalism erode the whole while new multitudes emerge. Survival is an option, but only conditionally.

Right Accelerationism is mainly Moldbug and Nick Land, while Left Accelerationism is Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek, Ray Brassier, and Tony Negri

How can we use capitalist technology to destroy capitalism?

let's make everything shit for everybody so that when they're not busy dying they can decide to overthrow capitalism

The idea is to increase social anomie to the point where revolution is inevitable.

While it would be nice to be certain, it fails as a concept because brainwashing does not mask anomie, it redirects it to a boogeyman.

You don't, Capitalism can only fall out of a global collapse through it's contradictions. It may be global revolt, resource wars, increasing automation, climate catastrophes or the generation of AI singularity/emergence of the posthuman. These are ll hypothetical however.

The main argument is that instead of waiting for the revolution to happen, you can generate a political,scientific and epistemological program right now that we want to see in the world tomorrow.

Here is a good summary:

e-flux.com/journal/escape-velocities/

The dumb proles don't know what's best for them, so let's make everything worse to show them how bad capitalism is. That will surely bring them to our side.

Pure ideology

Explain.

The belief that its contradictions alone will bring its downfall is nothing more than just another illusion

It has to be brought down forcefully, and in the 168 years since the Communist Manifesto, everything has failed

Hence why its nothing more than an illusion, its ideology, pure, unadultered, ideology

I see.

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criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/

They are not discounting revolution, but the idea that the idea revolution alone means anything anymore.

Oh I do believe in the contradictions existing, just not in the inevitability

If the alternative doesn't come out, and come out fast, we may as well be counting on another 168 years of capitalism

And even if it comes out fast, it needs to be pushed

Good ideas don't flourish and expand like wildfire, if computer science's history is of any guide for instance

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Nothing good will come out of this godforsaken continent until its education becomes truly capable of producing avantgarde literature instead of trashy novels and caudillo biopics

Do you really think that US liberal arts education somehow helps the left? From here american left looks ridiculous: a movement devolved into intellectual masturbation long, a movement that lost all contact with the working class.

I think we need less smug BAs, not more.

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Where is 'here'?

In quite a part of south america though, being able to read alone is considered a feat, getting to university, a bourgeoisie-only muh privilege and that fucks up the left

The left has come to be seen as the ideology of the opportunistic petit-bourgeoisie rather than an instrument of change

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The idea that capitalism can't be reformed but at this point also can't be overthrown, and that the Left should correspondingly focus its energies not in stopping the tide, but in working on what to do after it hits

Fuck you

It's the retarded notion that we can make things better by making things worse.

It's the retarded notion that we can make things better by making things worse.>>725370