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For once the accelerationists were proven right.
by paganel 6mo ago
For once the accelerationists were proven right.
- tsss 6mo agoI don't think you're using that word correctly.
- paganel 6mo agoAm I not? How would you have used it?
- tsss 6mo agoAccelerationists are people who want to embrace the ultra-capitalist surveillance state to force a societal collapse in order to eventually built a better society on its ruins. We are very far from that goal, so I don't see how they have been proven right about anything.
- fineIllregister 6mo agoWhich accelerationists? Accelerationism is a strategy, not an ideology. Two accelerationists might have directly opposed beliefs and goals.
- paganel 6mo ago> Two accelerationists might have directly opposed beliefs and goals. The same way as there has been a left-wing socialism and a right-wing socialism, which in the case of inter-war France (for example) ended up with the Ni droite, Ni gauche slogan. But I can understand that the audience here is not that willing to embrace dialectic thinking, even though discussing about politics of the last 200 years or so without involving said dialectic thinking would be a futile thing.
- fineIllregister 6mo agoThat comparison doesn't make any sense. Socialism is an ideology. Accelerationism is a strategy that can be used by a person of any ideology. A communist can be an accelerationist, so can a fascist, a liberal, a monarchist, an ethnonationalist, etc. It can be a strategy to try to advance any policy, pro/anti-slavery, pro/anti-abortion, etc.