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Accelerationism (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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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. 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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[–] 112 points 4 months ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Obviously, we shouldn’t need to detail “villains bad” in media, but with so many of them having “from the ashes” plans, I’d like to see more heroes deconstructing their approach like this.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah the take plays against their point and into the hands of fascists. A common retort from "capitalists" goes "well why doesn't your economic system compete on the free market? If it's so good it will rise to the top." You believing your ideology will defacto rise from a blank slate after society collapses lends credence to that argument. (Which is flawed in so many ways)

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  • [+] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    "no serious political movement" my dude, statesian republicans are maybe not explicit statesians [edit woah oaky maybe too many drugs] accelerationists but like, i'm gonna lose teeth because of them.

    and don't say they aren't serious because just because they're dipshits, they're still a major political party and killing people. that's pretty damn serious.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    This is exactly the problem. "Supporting policies that make things worse for the average person" is not the same thing as "accelerationism." Some people are just wrong, or they have different motivations (like making them and their friends rich). If accelerationism just means making things worse, then everyone is an accelerationist to everyone who disagrees with them, it loses any real meaning.

    There may be a handful of actual accelerationists in the party, but they're mostly driven by material interests and a whole bunch of brainworms, not by some accelerationist strategy.

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