If there was any aspect of my biography that could be considered universally controversial, it would be the identification as an Accelerationist. This is especially true due to how little nuance the mass media and governments alike show the ideology, tarring all adherents with the same Alt-Right brush as the Proud Boys before burning down the house to keep everyone safe from whatever damned mind virus we may be spreading. Yet despite being deplatformed from Facebook for the merest whiff of accelerated thinking, I have always been Left leaning politically. As a result I see the movement not as a solution to the worlds ills but an inevitable foil to the cyberpunk dystopia we now inhabit instead.

I first stumbled upon the idea in 2012 during a period of personal upheaval and its outcast philosophy gelled with my rather nihilistic world view at the time. Left Accelerationism really hit the sweet spot for me. It felt like evolution, lightning in a bottle. A cure for stagnation and social cheat code to force culture to deterritorialize and then reterritorialize into something different. Magick of a kind. Originally I did not care if culture evolved into something better, or fairer, I was just looking for change. But I have since softened that position to equality first, progress a very close second, a thread that will likely be reflected in both my writing and the wider concept of Esoteric Accelerationism as a whole.

So yes, over the last decade I have managed to stay on the Left of that initially anarchic and perhaps slightly knee jerk position. Accelerationism itself was highly mysanthropic during its formative years, but I would not call the writings of the CCRU particularly Right Wing. Instead the entire ideology has been forever marred by the actions of Nick Land, hailed by some as the founding father of the movement but in actuality just one face among a collective of scholars and students experimenting together at the time. I have no love for fascists or their obsession with draconian rules and enforced social controls, so there is little chance of me ever becoming one. No thanks.

That said aside from stating that I remain Left of Centre, any attempt to try and define my actual position within the boundaries of Accelerationism is like trying to describe my role as a chaos magickian. Both are equally ersatz concepts which can easily be adopted as a catch all term by people who have never really sat down to do the homework. I have done mine, read as much as I can on the topic including the publicly available CCRU output and later essays by Land, but can I still only give a rough probability of where I am and why it resonates so strongly. Either way I am convinced that the only way Is through now, from a social and ecological standpoint, whether we like it or not.

Sadly we are already too late to fix the problems we are facing any other way. The bulk of the Western population will have to see the water lapping at the Tube platforms before they take climate change seriously, or the cost of living crisis bite to the point that they cannot afford to feed their children month in, month out. No one wants to have to face the truth. But when it is forced upon them they will have no choice. That is not social Darwinism or elitism. Far from it. I just understand how that disinterested herd thinks, and what it will take for them to act on the issues they are currently too distracted to see.

All that aside, I do not think Left Accelerationism in its purest state is the answer for anything other than perhaps giving technology more freedom to create and mankind to invent, something that has defined our species since the first tool was adopted long ago. Or as a skill set to be applied to movements such as occult groups and such to push them forward by copying the way that corporations evolve through cannibalisation and memetic entrainment of the unaligned masses. And I do not want to see it become the default position on a social or political level in the long term, just long enough to scare people into thinking about alternatives and solutions.

Unfortunately, Capitalism and to a lesser extent Communism both have a lot more damage to do before people wake up to the issues facing us all. Stranger still is the Chinese model, wherein one happily wears the face of the other while lying to a population that has no idea just how little the state cares for their existence. It is going to take something from outside of that duality to wake people up, not just in the West but globally too. No way in hell it will be the Alt-Right on my watch, so Left Accelerationism is the next viable wildcard option on the list. Love me or hate me, you cannot ignore the fact that I am right.

Ultimately the reason I wave the flag for it in a specifically Left leaning, the only way is through aspect is simply because adopting a deliberately extreme position creates outliers, and people like myself pushing from the fringes of the social strata keeps the system healthy. Hopefully given room to breathe less unbalanced but perhaps initially disregarded voices will be allowed to create a form of real change that does more good than bad. A playing field is only as big as the boundary lines marked in the dust, and someone has to walk all the way to the edges, chalk in hand, to draw them out. Might as well be me.