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  • Please, everything you know about the Uyghur was manufactured by Zionist media with the “data” of literal cofounder of Victims of Communism Memorial Association and rabid Christian conservative “Adrian Zenz”.

    It’s beyond me why after seeing the literal entire western media establishment manufacturing consent for a genocide that we’ve seen televised in our own phones for the first time thanks to Chinese social media such as TikTok, people are still willing to take these same media’s claims at face value when it comes to the human rights of peoples in geopolitically tense regions of the world.








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    This is kinda mostly a strawman though, no serious political movement advocates for accelerationism, it’s just a strawman used against people further to the left than oneself.

    There are a few weird fringe cults who are accelerationist like Posadists (who believe nuclear war or aliens will bring communism), but it’s not by any means a position that holds a good footing in any serious political project.

    The strawman often takes claims like “there is not a big practical difference between these two political parties” and twists them into “I would rather have the worse party win”. Also takes descriptive statements like “people usually revolt when hungry” and attributes an intentionality to them, like “I wish more people would go hungry so that they starve more”, as if making an observation about the nature of protest and revolt implied supporting the conditions that create it.


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    Doesn’t help that the social democrats had murdered the more moderate leaders of the communists (like Rosa Luxembourg) just a few years before that and funded the Freikorps with government funds. How is a small party (KPD) without access to government more accelerationist than the big party in government (SPD) actively funding Nazi death squads to murder communists already a decade before?

    Also, the SPD leaders literally flipped its anti-militarist stance overnight when WW1 broke out. Again, who’s the accelerationist, the one protesting against that and being murdered by fascists or the party in government funding said fascists and supporting WW1?


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    Fully agreed but why the particular focus on the offending nation? You could give similar statistics about, say, Belarus or Poland. To me it’s not morally the same when a Nazi German soldier is killed in combat to when a Belarusian civilian is starved to death in a Nazi concentration camp.


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    This isn’t even the stupidest point of accelerationism

    Agreed, but like, there are no actual accelerationists, it’s mostly a strawman used to misrepresent people who are more radical. Sure, there may be a few random accelerationists around, but there’s no serious political movement anywhere with accelerationism in their policy because it is a very bad idea.