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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by nickpp on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:36AM (#38684809)
> associations of the term "accelrationism" with the extremes of the political spectrum

Care to elaborate? I am completely unaware of these associations.

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by pringk02 on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:37AM (#38684835)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

Though it has left-wing and right-wing variants, accelerationism argues that one should double down on capitalisim in order to destroy it.

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by timmytokyo on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:52AM (#38684984)
The variant supported by most Silicon Valley types appears to be the right-wing one. Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto" cites Filippo Marinetti, founder of the Italian futurist and fascist movements, as one of its "patron saints". Also included: Nick Land, spiritual father of the "dark enlightenment" accelerationist philosophy known known as neoreaction.
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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by malermeister on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:02PM (#38685119)
Most Silicon Valley VC types are poorly disguised crypto- (excuse the double entendre) fascists.
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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by zozbot234 on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:30PM (#38685513)
That was Marx's original theory - capitalism had to reach its full and complete development before it could transition into socialism. This is still understood in China as their rationale for supporting a market economy even in a supposedly 'socialist' country.
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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by dist-epoch on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:48AM (#38684926)
For example the Proud Boys far-right US group are also accelerationists:

https://ctc.westpoint.edu/uniting-for-total-collapse-the-jan...

They want to accelerate towards civil racial war in US.

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by EA-3167 on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:39AM (#38684861)
Accelerationists believe that the only way for a new political/social system to emerge (Communism, Fascism, whateverism) is to accelerate the downfall of status quo. So instead of engaging with the system and trying to change it, they try to enhance the worst aspects of it in the hopes that will drive people to (generally violent) revolution.

It is obviously a niche ideology you rarely run into offline, and when you do it's generally young, mentally ill, or simply very damaged people who can't imagine life ever getting better without the world burning first.

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Re:'e/acc' – Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about ... by nickpp on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:06PM (#38702402)
So it looks to me like the only thing they all have in common is the root word "to accelerate" - otherwise they are completely different ideologies.
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