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Accelerationism (Baliscano: aceleracionismo), also known as Baliscan accelerationism to distinguish it from similarly named movements, is a syncretic social, economic and political movement based various lines of thought, including anti-capitalist positions with aspects of anarchism (specifically anarcho-socialism, democratic confederalism and libertarian municipalism), pirate politics, technological utopianism and postnationalism. The movement calls for social processes such as technological change to be drastically intensified to destabilize systems to create further progressive social change referred to as "acceleration". It is considered to be a Post-left and post-growth ideology, and seeks to highlight the importance of autonomy, care work, self-organization, commons, community, subsidiarity, work sharing, happiness and conviviality.
Baliscan accelerationism regards the concept of a state as redundant, and asserts that a society based on freedom and justice can only be achieved with the gradual erosion or abolition of authoritarian institutions that control specific means of production through communization. Supporters advocate for decentralized structures based on direct democracy and federal or confederal associations such as citizens'/popular assemblies, cooperatives, libertarian municipalism, trade unions and workers' councils. The movement embraces technology (especially those related to the digital sublime) as a key force in establishing a more democratic and equitable society.
Socially, the movement embraces and encourages human reason, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting and discouraging religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making. As such, it has sometimes been labelled anti-clerical and anti-religion.
The movement traces its roots to the Cosmocazo movement of the mid-1860s, which saw increased insurrectionary sentiment in favor of decentralization, eventually culminating in the Cantonal War. It came to prominence in Baliscan politics in the aftermath of the Baliscan Revolution (1917-20).
