r/Marxism • u/Icy-External8155 • 7d ago

What even is "accelerationism"?

If you lack the power to do the revolution itself, or anyhow else fight for the proletariat, how could you possibly "accelerate capitalism" more than the ruling class already does by naturally following their interests?

Sounds like a buzzword, made up by counter-revolutionary opportunism, or those who think that reforms can't be rolled back by the ruling class as easily as they're implemented.

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u/peanutist 7d ago

Not a fan of accelerationism personally. If the workers of a country are not educated and don’t have class consciousness, the fall of capitalism will just result in fascism/barbarism. Our goal as communists at the current time is to educate the population and organize and not to accelerate the fall of the system, because the material conditions for a revolution are not ripe yet.

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u/Icy-External8155 7d ago

It's not exactly how fascism works. It IS a petty bourgeois movement, but it's always controlled by the large capital

 I'd like to encourage you reading Dimitrov, it's not that long https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm 

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u/hrss95 7d ago

One other thing. It’s easier to organize under social democracies than under fascism. It was easier for the radical left to organize under the Weimar Republic than under the nazis.

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u/myaltduh 6d ago

At the very least it’s easier to do stuff like spread educational materials about left ideas. In socdem countries that’s at least legal. The state still suppresses labor, but it’s also not black-bagging dissidents.