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I think this article has a distinct bias and isn't considering how most people discuss the issue today. I think that colloquially this word is used both by the
by khawkins 7y ago
I think this article has a distinct bias and isn't considering how most people discuss the issue today.
I think that colloquially this word is used both by the left and the right to suggest the political tactic based on the sensibility that the political system is near collapse and attempts to "repair" the system from within are futile. Accelerationists are frustrated with the current system's perceived corruption, injustice, and immovability, thinking that acting in good faith will never attain the progress they aim for. They suggest that it is more valuable to push society and the political system to the point of collapse in attempts to incite a revolution, expecting that rebuilding the system from scratch, or at least in a society in chaos, will allow them to achieve their political goals in the new order.
Accelerationism seems to be the motive for a bunch of terrorism. For example, the Christchurch shooter cited as part of his motives wanting to spur debates on gun control, especially in the US, recognizing that these debates are increasingly dividing the country and pushing the country towards a civil war. Dylan Roof wanted to incite a race war. A lot of Islamic terror is trying to incite a pan-Islamic revolution. Antifa riots, destroys property, and often directly engages with police and right-wing groups in an attempt to weaken the "capitalist" social order.
- davinic 7y agoYou had me until Antifa riots. Source?
- oauaoeu123123 7y agoSource for what ? antifa riots ? in france antifa destroys property and engages with the police on a pretty regular basis in several cities, it's pretty much become a sport for spoiled above-average kids - despite that it would seem otherwise.
- dropit_sphere 7y agoIs Antifa accelerationist? I think if you asked them they'd say they were "confronting rising threats," not spurring them on. Am I mistaken?
- oauaoeu123123 7y agoThey'd say that violence is the only way that works. It's "demonstrated" in the first chapter of their silly brainwashing book.
- CrackerNews 7y agoIt's in reaction to fascists using violence and intimidation as a political tool.
- oauaoeu123123 7y agoFor french antifas, a bus stop or a mcdonalds is a violent fascist then.
- Lainly 7y agoYou keep bringing up the French, but the yellow vests are not antifa.
- Lainly 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_The_Anti-Fascist_Handbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa:_The_Anti-Fascist_Handb... You mean this? Cause antifa doesn't have a book. This is a book on the history of anti-fascist movements, and while you might not agree with it, it doesn't make it "the antifa book"
- Miner49er 7y agono you're right. Antifa is not accelerationist.
- CrackerNews 7y agoThe colloquial usage obviously differs from the blogosphere usage, which is where the article's version of Accelerationism originates from. The latter version of Accelerationism is that the current neoliberalism order will "naturally" progress to a next phase of society. I'm not the best at understanding or explaining accelerationism, but I gather that left-accelerationists usually subscribe to the labor theory of value, and so automation's decrease of labor value to 0 will result in a collapse of capitalism that derives value of goods and services from the labor needed to produce them. Right-accelerationism seeks to embrace the disruption of technology to a logical extreme for technologial progress. Neo-Reaction wants to revert back to pre-democratic ideals as they see democracy as being incompatible with their techno-libertarian ideals. I haven't heard of xenoaccelerationism before but upon a cursory glance, it seems similar in that it embraces the disruption of culture and identity politics by technology's increasing encroachment and control on nature. It sounds like an overlap with transhumanism, but I am probably uninformed about the finer details.