Accelerationism and Tech Fascism
I think of accelerationism as a math equation.
It has many variables, with values assigned by the players.
the current state of things — often, the current nation-state or states, or economic system
why the current state is irredeemably flawed and cannot go on
why the flaws are so severe as to either eventually collapse on their own, making way for something better, or as to merit extreme measures to overthrow its systems
why this perceived or desired change must be brought about sooner than on its ownsome
HOW the acceleration will go about, the methodologies and strategies of acceleration
WHAT tradeoffs are willing to be made to bring about the desired or inevitable new order
And that is why the question of accelerationism hinges around death. Revolutionary in nature, the overthrow of existing systems almost always contains within it: what can or must be sacrificed? Who must die? How many of them? What fall-out is justified by the desirable outcomes of the change?
This is the acceleration, the trade-off, the perhaps gruesome acts that must occur, the scale on which it all balances.
What measure of death is acceptable, what horrors and tortures, justified?
There are versions of accelerationism on all parts of the political spectrum. It is at the least a thought experiment and at most a gauntlet.
For communists, there is the acceleration of the end of capitalism, which will eventually crash in on itself and give rise to a new economic system — but for as long as it continues, it will create mass suffering and death. Thus, we aim to speed its downfall. As Lenin is oft quoted: “Sometimes - history needs a push.”
And he has been quoted by Marc Andreessen himself, among many things an internet troll, who enjoys using a quote from a sworn enemy from time to time to illustrate a point or other.
You see, we are dealing with far more sophisticated political players than many believe. While people make fun of them for being morons, they are having advanced historical-ideological discourse and dialectical banter across space-time. They know that they are in the dialectic with communist accelerationism vs fascist accelerationism.
So for fascists, there is the accelerationism of the end of the democracy, the cleansing of the human pool for the genetically superior, the arrival of an age of war and imperialism which is held back by current forces, the elimination of communists and leftists, and, importantly, the maintenance of capitalism as it is threatened by its own structural flaws / by leftism and communism. Fascism is capitalism at its most desperate, extreme, homicidal, terroristic, sadistic.
(I recommend reading Dutt on Fascism and Social Revolution and Socialism4All has audiobooks on the same)
In tech fascism, the ultimate goal of accelerationism is to bring about the Network State, which is seen as the inevitable successor to democracy and the nation-state, the solution to the threats of leftism and communism, the necessary path to maintain capitalist oppression and save the capitalists from capitalism, the best path to pursue war and genocide which is considered a natural and permanent state… what is needed to establish the sovereignty of tech fascism and eventually, its envelopment of the globe.
So I will focus here on the two variables of HOW the acceleration will happen, the achievement of the new state, and the TRADEOFFS they are willing to make.
For each aspect of the tech fascist acceleration blueprint, for each of its goals, there is a method of accelerationism. Here are but five examples of goals and accelerations, and there are more, but I invite you to fill in the dots.
Goal: Extended lifespans, freedom from cancer and other fatal illnesses for the tech fascist class, greater intelligence, eugenics and breeding of a superior race, the ascension of the species to a higher racial form.
The acceleration: thousands of biotech startups and human experiments secured by unregulated medical testing zones around the world, particularly in the global south — a primary goal of the Network State. By my guess it will take hundreds of millions of bodies to complete the medical testing necessary to achieve their biological goals. They will certainly not be doing risky experiments on their precious superior selves or their new generation of uber-babies.
Goal: The new crypto economic system.
The acceleration: destruction and absorption of nation-state economies, creation of own financial system, banks and currencies, attacks on the stock market, regulatory bodies, and trade to create inflow into crypto, the blowing up of banks (Silicon Valley Bank), wealth transfer from the nation-states into the Network State, continuous economic warfare
Goal: Defense for the Network State, preparation for war against nation-states, deterrence from attacks by democracies
The acceleration: the creation of a vast venture-capital backed military —allowing them to compensate for lack of numbers and their utter unwillingness to risk their own lives in war — by technological means; autonomous and AI-weapons including AI weapons of mass destruction (the new Manhattan Project that has been extensively published about by Palantir CEO in his new book).
Goal: Sovereignty, the basis of the Network State and cradle of their dreams, necessary for all their goals.
The acceleration: establishment of sovereign cities and colonies around the world as launching pads to destroy nation-states, attack on the United States of America and its elections and government, alliances with powerful sovereigns like Israel and Saudi Arabia who will recognize its sovereignty, participation in global war, secession, more coups beyond the US
Goal: Development of artificial intelligence
The acceleration: global build-out of datacenters, new data harvesting schemes i.e. DOGE and Worldcoin, plundering of natural resources for energy (water, lithium, geothermal energy from El Salvador, etc.), forcing the world into an arms race over AI as they are making it an issue of national security and economic necessity for global competition, etc.
Well, now these themselves give us some indication of the lengths they are willing to go. But what are the trade-offs, how far are they willing to go, when it comes to playing the accelerationism tango?
(that was a joke about the dialectic)
Certainly they are fine with mass death, key actors and architects of the genocide of Palestinians. Clearly they are preparing for war with super-powers, war hawking at China, screeching day in and day out. Clearly they are prepared to do medical experiments at great cost to the lives of others.
How far will they go?
I don’t have a concrete answer for you. But based on my personal evaluation of their disregard for human life, their belief that we are a lower life form, their willingness to exterminate, their willingness to compromise even that most powerful nation-state of America, their willingness to colonize and arm cops to keep us down… the HATE they feel for us…
And this is important. They FUCKING HATE US.
THEY FUCKING HATE US.
I think we are looking at something far beyond what even the Nazis did. That that is far more than a non-zero risk, but a risk something on the order of 90% unless extreme interventions are mounted.
I think they would kill us all the very second we exhausted our value to them; and it is a value that they are working frantically to eliminate, first transferring into the Network State and eventually… cutting the cord. This has been described by Nick Land, who deserves far more attention than he is getting: “Approaching the bionic horizon, secessionism takes on an altogether wilder and more monstrous bearing – towards speciation.”
The socialite Curtis Yarvin gets most of the spotlight, but surely we can indeed turn to something more monstrous.
As long as we live, we are an existential threat to them.
We need to take them the fuck down before this goes any further. And in that matter, I am myself an accelerationist.