or should we grab the haft and pull ourselves down to face the inevitable on something resembling our own terms?

Of all the problems with accelerationism, maybe the biggest is thinking we would be able to jump off the cliff "on something resembling our own terms."

Right now, the left (at least in the U.S.) is not large enough or organized enough to take advantage of an upheaval of society. We don't have our own terms because "we" doesn't really exist at scale. There's at least an argument for pushing the issue when you're strong enough to possibly win, but we have a lot more work to do before we get to that point.