American pseudodemocracy is easier to overthrow than authoritarian state capitalism. Things are pretty awful in America, but a lot of folks underestimate the depths of how awful a system can get. They think their worst day is the worst day that ever happened. They’re sheltered.
I saw a lot of people on Reddit in 2016 saying that Trump would shake the system up and convince people to join the left and start a revolution. Did we do it? Did we shake the system up? Were they right?
Let’s be clear, accelerationism is a morally bankrupt strategy and never works to the degree its proponents think it will. But it is also undeniable that leftist ideologies have not been this popular in America since the 1920s.
It’s not entirely due to Trump, but rather the dialectical relationship between the capitalist mode of production and the innate human rejection of oppression.
I agree that popular opinion has gone very far to the left. But the danger of accelerationism is that it always leads to political disenfranchisement in equal or greater measure. Thus, popular opinion becomes decoupled from government action, and government action slides right.
We are creating a society of radical socialists who can’t do anything to put their ideas into praxis. The levers of power are retreating from our reach as the elections become more rigged, and at the same time, the rich infect us with mind-viruses that psychologically disempower us, and turn our energy to unproductive strategies. We are lefter, but weaker. The end result is still a slide to the right.
Ah, yes, I forgot. Those two famously still in power people… checks notes… Barak Obama and Joe Biden.
They meant system, but I’ll bite, Mao “stepped down” after his failed cultural revolution
American pseudodemocracy is easier to overthrow than authoritarian state capitalism. Things are pretty awful in America, but a lot of folks underestimate the depths of how awful a system can get. They think their worst day is the worst day that ever happened. They’re sheltered.
I saw a lot of people on Reddit in 2016 saying that Trump would shake the system up and convince people to join the left and start a revolution. Did we do it? Did we shake the system up? Were they right?
Let’s be clear, accelerationism is a morally bankrupt strategy and never works to the degree its proponents think it will. But it is also undeniable that leftist ideologies have not been this popular in America since the 1920s.
It’s not entirely due to Trump, but rather the dialectical relationship between the capitalist mode of production and the innate human rejection of oppression.
I agree that popular opinion has gone very far to the left. But the danger of accelerationism is that it always leads to political disenfranchisement in equal or greater measure. Thus, popular opinion becomes decoupled from government action, and government action slides right.
We are creating a society of radical socialists who can’t do anything to put their ideas into praxis. The levers of power are retreating from our reach as the elections become more rigged, and at the same time, the rich infect us with mind-viruses that psychologically disempower us, and turn our energy to unproductive strategies. We are lefter, but weaker. The end result is still a slide to the right.