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[–] BeMoreCareful 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since when is accelerationism associated with the left? This is righty race war rapture shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of anti-electoralist accelerationists on there left. Seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation."

  • Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This is pretty straightforwardly an accelerationist tactic. It might not have been called that at the time, but strategically pushing crises over the tipping point, in order to take advantage of their fallout, wasn't invented by the boogaloo boys in 2017.

[–] Gabu 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the lteral fuck are you on about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it's that complicated

[–] BeMoreCareful 4 points 1 year ago

So, you're saying that anything aside from acquiescence is accelerationism?

I feel like if MLK Jr had been advocating Wallace for president that might make a little sense. Assembly against the government/institutions is well within the political sphere.

Martin Luther King Jr wasn't even opposed to the states monopoly on violence. He was just clever about using that violence against the State. Clever and pretty self sacrificial. There was routine bodily and financial harm performed by the state against African Americans. Manson was trying to promote a race war to overthrow society. MLK was trying to fix society.

He was a radical, but not an accelerationist.