Nick Land’s Schizoanalytical Update of Marx’s Critique of Capitalist Accelerationism

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In a recent post Jehu of The Real Movement would ask in reference to a comment I made:

“Marx’s accelerationism is the acceleration of accumulated capital”

So, does this mean Nick Land is a Marxist?

I commented to this as follows,

Obviously Marx’s accelerationism is a critique of the “accelerated production of surplus-value” in capitalism, so Marx was not an accelerationist of either the Left or Right… he was just seeing what the Capitalists were up too. The capitalists are the accelerationist’s, not Marx. See: Marx’s Critique of Accelerationism – A Few Notes from Capital

As for Landian accelerationism: his is partially in agreement with Deleuze/Guattari’s techno-utopianism:

“A little additional effort is enough to overturn everything, and to lead us finally toward other far-off places. The schizoanalytic flick of the finger, which restarts the movement, links up again the tendency, and pushes the simulacra to a point where they cease being…

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