Re:Power substations vandalized in Washington state
by Analemma_ on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:38PM
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There's an important lesson to be learned here, in that the intricacies and subdivisions of your fandom only matter to you, and nobody else cares. Just like metalheads insist on profound differences between thrash and doom that no non-metalheads will ever notice, nobody cares about the differences between left- and right-accelerationsism when the practical effect-- destroying civilization and all its comforts, probably killing millions and leaving us in a miserable hard-scabble existence-- is the same.
Re:Power substations vandalized in Washington state
by kelseyfrog on Monday December 26, 2022 @05:25PM
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I'm not sure we know HN the same way. The HN audience I know generally enjoys peering into subcultures and understanding the intricacies of their conceptualizations from the inside. I can't think of an audience more aligned with picking apart subtle distinctions than this one.
> Accelerationism is the most inherently violent and dangerous ideology circulating in the global white supremacist extremist movement.
This for example is not untrue, but it omits the basics necessary to understand the broader context.
Accelerationism is a practical strategy able to be incorporated into any ideology. While right-wing accelerationism seeks to foment civil breakdown that results in a white ethno state, left wing accelerationism seeks to let the breaks off if capitalism in the hope that it will self implode and the resulting devestattion can be harnessed to bring about a communist utopia.
Between and around these lie myriad other accelerationist tendencies each with its own version of what will happen after the status quo self-annihilates. My point is that leaving out all of this is a huge omission and we haven't even gotten to Nick Land and the CCRU yet!