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.

people will rise up

The line in the sand as to what's acceptable has been redrawn so many times, if the people haven't risen up by now, they never will. You're stuck with the rancid orange colostomy bag until he either pops his clogs, or chooses to leave.

Literally Ernst Thälmann. He said to let the Nazis take power, and then the whole world will see how incompetent they are, and then his communist party will surely rise up! But there are no prizes for guessing what happened to him in the end!

Accelerationism isn't just being apathetic, it's actively making things worse. It's voting for Trump because the DNC didn't elect Bernie Sanders.

Lenin was much the same. He knew a revolution wouldn't happen if things got better, so he did everything he could to make things as bad as humanly possible. When the provisional government came along, granted free speech rights and universal suffrage, Lenin was vehemently opposed to it, because you can't have a communist revolution when stuff is going well. A stable government is not one you can overthrow.

This isn't even the stupidest point of accelerationism. That's the assumption that your personal utopia will emerge from the ashes, instead of something much worse.

The simple fact of the matter is that there is no path to "perfect" which doesn't track through an infinite amount of "better" first.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/nx-s1-5798990/doj-firing-squads-executions-trump-capital-punishment

Okay, but capitalism dystopia is not going to look like that. In real capitalism, that wall will be covered in advertisements and motivation posters.

After WW2 65 million people were dead and 50% of the boys and men in Germany were dead. Everyone loses with fascism

The real solution btw is just a better consensus mechanism in our electoral process in the form of STAR Voting.
It is quite literally that simple.
The lack of choice (as explained in Duverger's Law) is what kills our politics and helps the media portray all political battles as us vs them and not "What shade out of a million shades of gray should this policy be?".

tl;dr - STAR Voting is quite literally a panacea for nearly all the extreme ills that plague our politics - even a large portion of "voting doesn't matter so I won't" apathy....because to vote "strategically" under STAR Voting is to just vote honestly and every vote matters. No revolution required - just a better electoral process. I'm happy to answer any questions.

What accerationists don't realise is that the average liberal already knows the US is fascist and evil billionaires control everything. That average liberal wants change. But they aren't doing anything, because they're thinking "surely when it gets REALLY bad, people will rise up". Just like the accelerationists. Accelerationists and liberals are the same group.

There's also climate accelerationism, which is least logically sound. If humans wipe themselves out, then the problem will be solved.