Accelerationism is the obscure idea thatâs inspiring white supremacist killers around the world.
god. this is a lot
You know when you go into something knowing a situation is horrible and then realize you had no fucking clue? Read this
Sort of a tangent, but climate change discussions are a prime example of just how insidious accelerationist rhetoric can be. I've lost count of how many times I've seen blackpill talking points come out of the mouths of oblivious liberals. Usually white. Overpopulation, austerity policies, conspiracies about crisis response. Even the wannabe Rambo ass apocalypse fantasies are, at their core, reactionary.
But something like "overpopulation is the problem" sounds right to someone who doesn't know how reactionary politics function. It seems like an obvious, indisputable fact when one doesn't learn how to untangle the deeper implications behind political statements. So a lot of (white) liberals are especially susceptible to the type of recruiting that cryptofascists prefer to employ.
My brother, who would be horrified to know the origins of his belief, thoroughly believes the overpopulation lie. He's a Terminally Online Zoomer opinionated white guy who is a perfect target for accelerationists: not at all likely to participate in their horrendous violence, but very likely to absorb the rhetoric that makes him feel paralyzed, apathetic, and misanthropic while they detonate the world around him.
If we care about stopping this tide of fascism, we are obligated to learn the ways in which they've camouflaged themselves. The term "dogwhistle" gets bandied about a lot, and applied to things like the (((three parentheses))), which has quickly moved from dog whistle to open, unabashed antisemitism. The actual dog whistles, the ones we need to be aware of and ready to critique, often sound on the surface like normal conversations.
If, like the previous commenter, you feel horrified by the scope of the problem, the quickest way to start getting active is to get intimately familiar with their rhetoric, their codes, the underpinnings of their politics, and the machinery that makes fascism run.
really good thank you for writing this
âLike neoreaction, neo-Nazi accelerationism holds that the liberal-democratic order is a failure â that we should move beyond it toward a better future, and that the task of political action should be to accelerate the speed of that transformation. Only in their view, that  âbetter futureâ is not capitalist authoritarianism, but the total collapse of a degenerate and corrupt Western society â and the rebirth,  out of its ashes, of a new political order more hospitable to white  domination.â
________________________ This is what Iâve been talking about on here with regards to the anti-capitalist right.
Leftists (especially those who are not strongly involved in antifascist work) need to be very careful in anti-capitalist spaces, because there are multiple strands of fascist anti-capitalist movements that seek to destroy Western governments as a goal. There is a ârevolutionary rightâ and they absolutely will use Leftist action to their own benefit to take power and implement their own vision of society based in white cis male supremacy and eugenics.
Not everyone who is anti-US government or anti-capitalist or anti-centralized government is a comrade. Leftists need to forefront our fight against racism (esp anti-blackness), antisemitism, misogyny (esp transmisogyny), and eugenics. Our primary goal as leftists needs to be based in liberation movements and the inherent value of individualsâ life, freedom, and bodily autonomy.
And imo, we need to focus much more on building mutual aid networks and laying the framework for the societies we want and need in a post-revolution world, because if all our energy is poured into toppling the current capitalist structure without having a robust plan in place for what follows, then our world will quickly fall to fascists who are already planning out how they want society structured.
It's not just the anticapitalist right that the left needs to worry about here though. There's been a real problem in spaces that outright call themselves leftist with the idea that climate change can be solved by literally encouraging human extinction.
https://itsgoingdown.org/its-attacks-anarchists/
These kinds of eco-fascists (though they'd never call themselves that, they're more likely to claim they're anarcho-primitivists) might seem like the polar opposite of the people in the first article but they're really not, they too are obsessed with "purification" and while they claim it's not based in any kind of right-wing race fantasy, as opposed to a general disdain for humanity, the kinds of victims they choose tell a different story.
This is the logical final stage of both leftism that thinks "civilization is evil" and liberalism that thinks "humans need to die off for the sake of the earth." Mass slaughter of the most vulnerable.
In May of this year, the eco-extremist group Individualists Tending Toward the Wild (ITS) issued a statement claiming responsibility for the
Itâs shit like this that just evacuates any hope I ever had of saving the planet. Iâm not an accelerationist. Fuck that shit. Fuck nazis, fuck white supremacy. The fact is, weâre completely outnumbered by chuds and chads and neolibs and neocons and fascists, and they have literally all the money and power and every violent weapon of suppression the state can wield, and we think we stand a fucking chance? Christ donât make me laugh! Weâre fucked, screwed, doomed and every synonym you can think of. Itâs too late kids! Enjoy the last few years of breathable oxygen and drinkable water while you can, because this is the end of the rollercoaster. All life on this poor rock will shrivel up and die and there is jack shit all we can actually do about it. I feel like shit for ever hoping it could be otherwise.
