is there any method to the madness? I stumbled upon some stuff and its horrifying, but could be understood from a very neutral perspective. Is it entirely full of racists and reactionaries?

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    the nature of the accelerationist philosophy basically requires a reactionary attitude. You don't get capital to pile up contradictions and then blow up without assuming that a whole lot of exploited and helpless workers at the bottom rungs of the world are going to bear the brunt of the damage

    The idea that capital won't find a way to adjust to its own hypothetical demise is nonsense. It's also not guaranteed at all that the proletariat will have a socialist outlook if they do rise up. Climate change has shown that we could end up with an ecofascist outcome as much as a socialist one. That's the context in which Marx and Lenin ever talked about the acceleration of capitalism. The contradictions are inevitable, but the outcomes need to be shaped from a socialist framework. It's just as foolish to try and tame capitalism as it is to say let it all go to hell

      • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Are you referring to Thiel? It does show what accelerationist thought collapses into. I remember reading Nick Land's stuff way back in the day. It was mildly interesting but even then you could see that he was hovering on the precipice of becoming a complete maniac. His relatively recent stuff with that Moldbug character really proved how unhinged and fascist the whole ideology is.

        It reminds me of something akin to the telephone game where you send a message along and see how garble it comes out when it reaches the final person. How accelerationism is understood seems to have taken that route, from Marx and Lenin to the baguette thinkers like Delueze and co and then to someone like Nick Land, and finally you end up with Peter Thiel. Strange times we live in

    • D61 [any]
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      4 years ago

      the nature of the accelerationist philosophy basically requires a reactionary attitude. You don’t get capital to pile up contradictions and then blow up without assuming that a whole lot of exploited and helpless workers at the bottom rungs of the world are going to bear the brunt of the damage

      :this: