User:DizzyLemur/Accelerationism

Far-left accelerationism
Commonly referred to as L/Acc, it's origin is often attributed to that of Mark Fisher, a mentor to later L/Acc proponents such as Srineck and Williams. The common consensus is generally that Left-Accelerationism grew out of a response to the emergence of Right-Accelerationism. Left-Accelerationism seeks to explore the ways in which modern society has the momentum to create futures that are equitable and liberatory. While both strands of Accelerationist thought remain rooted in the same root thinkers, Left-Accelerationism is thought to have a stronger root to adjacent philosophies such as Cybernetics as one of its central tenets is the use and advancement of modern technology, with intent the intent to use them socio-politically, towards achieving a desirable future. This use of Cybernetics is what makes Left-Accelerationism more closely associated with Marxism than its right counterpart, Right-Accelerationism. For many Accelerationists outside of the Left-Accelerationist camp, such as Nick Land, "The notion that self-propelling technology is separable from capitalism,” he stated in a Guardian interview, “is a deep theoretical error". It's this criticism that is often cited as a fundamental disagreement between Left and Right-Accelerationism.

Left-Accelerationism has struggled to maintain it's traction due to skepticism behind the feasibility of the trajectory of modern society being forced into certain avenues, regardless of which ideological lane it may fall into.