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[green, speaking, looking smug]
Okay, hear me out, here's the plan…
We go full apathy, basically we let capitalism fully spiral out into fascism. Once it's done, people will rise up and the system will collapse under its own weight. From its ashes, with our help, a better society will rise.β€―This is how we win.

[we now see that green is tied up in front of a bleak wall, along with a group of other people, being aimed at by a firing squad of characters in fascist uniforms]
[green, smiling] OK?
[blue, pissed] Dude…

https://thebad.website/comic/accelerationism

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[–] Pman@lemmy.org 5 points 8 hours ago

Governments that raise up against a totalitarian regime in anger rarely end up in a peaceful and prosperous place if they succeed, see France, Lybia, Rome, the Soviet Union/Russian Empire, China every time, Japan (under the shogunate), Egypt (Arab spring), Sudan, Somalia, Assyria (7th century BCE between 612 and 609 BCE), and so many more.

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

people will rise up

The line in the sand as to what's acceptable has been redrawn so many times, if the people haven't risen up by now, they never will. You're stuck with the rancid orange colostomy bag until he either pops his clogs, or chooses to leave.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago

Oh, no. People will rise up eventually. It's just a shame that most people turn out to be olympic athletes in mental gymnastics and delay the realization to the next generation(s).

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

Nope. Fascism is there to stay for the next decade regardless of what happens to Trump.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 30 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (4 children)

This is kinda mostly a strawman though, no serious political movement advocates for accelerationism, it's just a strawman used against people further to the left than oneself.

There are a few weird fringe cults who are accelerationist like Posadists (who believe nuclear war or aliens will bring communism), but it's not by any means a position that holds a good footing in any serious political project.

The strawman often takes claims like "there is not a big practical difference between these two political parties" and twists them into "I would rather have the worse party win". Also takes descriptive statements like "people usually revolt when hungry" and attributes an intentionality to them, like "I wish more people would go hungry so that they starve more", as if making an observation about the nature of protest and revolt implied supporting the conditions that create it.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 25 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of the far right is accelerationist. They've been hoping for a "race war" for many decades. Then there is the newer Effective Accelerationism/Network State/Dark Enlightenment stuff that the ultra wealthy seem to be into.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Wow.....a race war would not go well for the far right.

When I hear "far right", I think of middle aged angry white guys. We already HAD that war! At least in the united states....it was in the 1800s, and it did not go well for those who supported racial discrimination.

And that's underselling the whole thing quite a bit.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Didn't exactly go horribly for them either. Reconstruction ended early and a lot of concessions were made on behalf of "the economy" and "unifying the nation".

They should have let Sherman finish what he started.

[–] Pman@lemmy.org 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yes and no, the confederates lost the war but their whitewashing of history has quite a bit of staying power to the point that states like West Virginia and Ohio who had massively supported the Union in the Civil War are now more likely neo confederates and agree with the south take on "the war of northern aggression" which they started by attacking federal forces and raiding federal weapons depots while backing out of the federal government allowing it to pass a law they cite as the reason they backed out of it, rather than it being able to pass because they backed out. Also the war still left separate but equal and racial discrimination on the books and the last chattel slave in the US was freed during world war 2. So what the south (Pro-confederate states) and Americans who swallowed their propaganda learned was that fighting a war without seeding the ground everywhere first with their point of view and taking over things from the inside, like they did under Wilson, arguably the worst US president of the 20th century, and Trump just took that playbook and took it farther than the public was ready for but still pushed and those special interest groups that supported him had the choice to renounce him and be reviled by both major political wings of the US or back him to the hilt while he destroys the US from within, because if you can't get everything you want at least you can make sure nobody else gets anything either.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago

That's a good point. I grew up in rural Ohio a couple decades ago, and confederate flags were quite popular. In my youth, I remember going to one guy's trailer to bring back some more beer, and every threshold in his trailer had a confederate flag. Many of the people in the little, almost all-white towns, were somewhat afraid of the somewhat bigger towns that had a decent black population. I still see similar things where I live now, where my older neighbors living outside of a major city, are somewhat afraid of the city. Curiously, I live in the actual south now, and don't see confederate flags nearly as often than I did in rural Ohio.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Aren't all the Plantir people (well people with money high up) epushing for an accelerationist movement with their stuff? I would think the billionaires are serious is all. Mean it sounds freaking stupid to me but I don't have the bullhorn that the people who have all our private data does is all. However with the US they're using project 2025 as a starting point before they buy up everything after it breaks. Least that's what it appears, mean the VP is picked, groomed and supported by Theil. Just have to let them break enough then swoop in and mould a society they wanted. It's not something 99.99% of what people would want from what I can tell.

Perhaps I'm missing some subtly which I will say I haven't really looked into the definitions a lot but I don't think with current forces is as much of a strawman as it may seem is all. Though I don't think people on that side would want the same outcome as Mr Green is all.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the post says "capitalism bad" so I assumed that the green man is not from the right wing.

The right wing is not really collapsing the system IMO, they're just taking off its mask and showing how it truly is and has been.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yea, the right wing aren't destroying the system as people seem to claim. They are just moving it into the next stage of its logical evolution.

Fascism is Capitalism in decay. We have already reached Late Stage Capitalism, and now the Imperial boomerang is coming home. We did this to ourselves by not dismantling it sooner. We tried in the early 1900s with the communist and anarchist worker movements that occurred but then McCarthyism and the 2nd Red Scare really fucked everything up.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Couldn't agree more

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

idk, I feel like in particular the arguments I've had advocating for UBI with people arguing against it from a left wing perspective, those arguments often tend to be basically accelerationist (that it would be bad to improve things for people in a way that enables the continued existence of capitalism) or at least gesture at that. And as others have pointed out, the right is even more outwardly accelerationist.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 91 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This isn't even the stupidest point of accelerationism. That's the assumption that your personal utopia will emerge from the ashes, instead of something much worse.

The simple fact of the matter is that there is no path to "perfect" which doesn't track through an infinite amount of "better" first.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 7 points 15 hours ago

I don't think utopias are a bad idea in general, but if they somehow are only reachable by collapsing most of the current system before any groundwork can even be attempted... a form that can be developed in parallel and take over at some point makes much more sense.

Think about the transition and hopefully it doesn't require nuclear war.

[–] morto@piefed.social 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or this one:

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 27 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Literally Ernst ThΓ€lmann. He said to let the Nazis take power, and then the whole world will see how incompetent they are, and then his communist party will surely rise up! But there are no prizes for guessing what happened to him in the end!

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Doesn't help that the social democrats had murdered the more moderate leaders of the communists (like Rosa Luxembourg) just a few years before that and funded the Freikorps with government funds. How is a small party (KPD) without access to government more accelerationist than the big party in government (SPD) actively funding Nazi death squads to murder communists already a decade before?

Also, the SPD leaders literally flipped its anti-militarist stance overnight when WW1 broke out. Again, who's the accelerationist, the one protesting against that and being murdered by fascists or the party in government funding said fascists and supporting WW1?

[–] Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 4 points 17 hours ago

Capitalists: take notes on what the Nazis did wrong and tiptoe around it

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[–] RedFrank24@piefed.social 124 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Accelerationism isn't just being apathetic, it's actively making things worse. It's voting for Trump because the DNC didn't elect Bernie Sanders.

Lenin was much the same. He knew a revolution wouldn't happen if things got better, so he did everything he could to make things as bad as humanly possible. When the provisional government came along, granted free speech rights and universal suffrage, Lenin was vehemently opposed to it, because you can't have a communist revolution when stuff is going well. A stable government is not one you can overthrow.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (10 children)

How many actual Bernie supporters voted for Trump? Or are you just making up a strawman to blame the left for the Democrats being incapable of winning the elections to a sex criminal or at the very least banning a fascist from elections during their mandate?

Lenin was much the same. He knew a revolution wouldn't happen if things got better, so he did everything he could to make things as bad as humanly possible

You are abso-fucking-lutely making that up. The Bolsheviks had support from workers and soldiers precisely because they advocated from the start on an unconditional retreat from WW1, which was leading to massive casualty numbers and famine. Pulling your country out of imperialist war (which they did immediately after Bolshevism won the revolution btw) is literally the opposite of accelerationism.

When the provisional government came along, granted free speech rights and universal suffrage, Lenin was vehemently opposed to it

If by "universal" you mean male suffrage, female suffrage was I actually first implemented in the former Russian empire by the communists. The Bolsheviks organized a coup against the provisional government to pull the RSFSR out of imperialist war, and the fact that a bunch of former political prisoners and exiles had the military support to do this and maintain a stable state (and win the upcoming civil war) proves that it was the correct choice. The unelected provisional government barely survived the fascist coups that sought to reinstate the Tsar and society was growing exhausted of famine and poverty due to the wartime conditions, if you support the provisional government you're literally arguing for Russian nationalism and militarism, blows my mind that you'd be doing this on 2026.

Look up the dates for the independence of Finland or Estonia, and tell me whether they line up with the Provisional Government or with the October Revolution, then tell me again which government was more democratic, the one keeping them under their thumb or the one drafting a constitution granting the unilateral right to self-determination and secession.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

How many actual Bernie supporters voted for Trump?

There has never been a centrist who cares.

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[–] yogurt@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

When the provisional government came along, granted free speech rights and universal suffrage

The provisional goverment was unelected and self-appointed, arrested people for arguing in favor of refusing to fight in WWI, and after months of protests said they would allow women to vote whenever they got around to having an election but women couldn't vote until 20 and men 18.

Lenin wasn't opposed to the provisional government when it came along because he was in Germany and didn't know how mad a lot of people were at the random gang of Chuck Schumers from the Tsarist government who had declared themselves in charge, ignoring the Soviets that were already forming an elected government, and spent months stalling their version of an election so they could keep the incredibly unpopular WWI going.

Lenin started opposing the provisional government after 20k awol marines with machine guns showed up at his office saying they hated it, he said ok and then spent a couple months writing a book to explain why the angry guys with guns have a point.

If he was trying to be accelerationist he would have just hyped up the marines and let them shoot everybody instead of following the path of least resistance to a stable government that could last 6 months without a coup.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

This but socialism

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Okay, but capitalism dystopia is not going to look like that. In real capitalism, that wall will be covered in advertisements and motivation posters.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

After WW2 65 million people were dead and 50% of the boys and men in Germany were dead. Everyone loses with fascism

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[–] AlbynRailroad@fedinsfw.app 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The real solution btw is just a better consensus mechanism in our electoral process in the form of STAR Voting.
It is quite literally that simple.
The lack of choice (as explained in Duverger's Law) is what kills our politics and helps the media portray all political battles as us vs them and not "What shade out of a million shades of gray should this policy be?".

tl;dr - STAR Voting is quite literally a panacea for nearly all the extreme ills that plague our politics - even a large portion of "voting doesn't matter so I won't" apathy....because to vote "strategically" under STAR Voting is to just vote honestly and every vote matters. No revolution required - just a better electoral process. I'm happy to answer any questions.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No revolution required - just a better electoral process. I'm happy to answer any questions.

Why would the ruling capitalist class allow an electoral process that represents the working class against their own interests, if they haven't allowed this anywhere at any time?

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

For the same reason they're happy to burn the only habitable planet humans will ever have: they're going to play with fire in search of optimal profit, even to their own eventual detriment.

People act like raw, naked, decayed capitalism is a totally stable system where all actors work perfectly together to rationally suppress the proletariat in perpetuity. But it's not that. Capital has accumulated to the point of a handful of individuals butting heads over all of the earth's resources.

There's no longer a cabal of dozens of cartels coordinating in abstract lock step. There's like 10 dudes that can meet in a room. Applying dialect-materialism to that is using Newtonian physics on a quantum scale.

Petty grudges and irrational emotions take control at that scale. A few of them get the idea that they can eat the others by leveraging the proletariat and all bets are off.

Will it certainly happen? Not necessarily. But more individuals have deposed through creative leveraging of legal mechanisms than those spontaneously pulled from their beds and shot. There's no reason to not be prepared if the opportunity presents itself.

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Someone do a version of the comic with this guy’s comment as the text of the first panel, please.

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