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2026-10-21 10:29 UTC

The Democrats built up ICE along with the Republicans. The Democrats stood idle while abortion rights were attacked, and queer people attacked. At a certain point of ineffectiveness, even if we assumed that the Democrats really did want to improve things, their sheer incompetence is worthy of abandonment. The most oppressed people I know are also the most revolutionary and the most critical of the Democrats. Also, “make things bad” isn’t accelerationism. Accelerationism is the belief that we need to speed up centralization of capital in the imperial core in order to move the timeline of capitalist crisis forward, ie we need to support the most competent capitalists. The Democrats are generally better for corporate profits, and therefore are the actual accelerationist party. Accelerationism is wrong and a bad strategy, but the idea that anyone is supporting the Republicans on the left is nonsense.

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  • @Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2026-10-21 11:32

    When did I say you’re supporting Republicans? Accelerationism has multiple definitions and includes everyone who thinks there is salvation on the other side of speeding up some aspect of capitalism that warrants ignoring the destruction caused by the acceleration. All neoliberals are accelerationists, but so are leftists who think that the destruction caused by the contradictions in capitalism will bring about social consciousness and revolution and seek to attain it on a faster timeline by speeding up capitalism.

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