“But politics is not all hopeless. Left Accelerationism is an alternative, and it’s the idea that the only way out of multinational late capitalism is through it. Capitalism has one direction at this point and that’s collapse. Either it collapses into socialism or fascism, but it’ll collapse. Technological growth is a consequence of capitalism and technology. It can and should be repurposed. Left acceleration anticipates this collapse and aims to utilize technology to not only nudge the collapse Leftward, but to seize control via a counter-hegemony symmetrical to right populism. Marxism for the 21st century is nothing if not left Accelelerationism.
Accelerationism in its left alignment acknowledges that capitalism is the common denominator in all global conflicts which all affect one another in a complex schema. Horizontal & local politics can’t contend with this planetary complexity. Capitalism has in the past made socialized concessions to prevent its collapse. Make all the jokes you want about “fully automated space communism” and the implausibility of such a world, but that’s part of why the Left keeps dissaponting itself. Left Accelerationism urges the larger left to reject nostalgia and embrace Bogdanovian “tektology” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektology) and global systems.
Punching Richard Spencer is satisfying but the left also needs new political infrastructures. In the last five years Left Accelerationist action has mostly amounted to intellectual elite meetings, high-quality publishing, contemporary art projects and academic conferences. Left Accelerationism needs to leave behind its safe theoretical embryo and its current status a new intellectual cult around certain figureheads and a new brand identity for personal career advancement in arts and academia and instead become a real planetary political movement.”
