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"From chaos to racial war": what is accelerationism?

2021-11-19T14:21:39.909Z


FOCUS - Influenced by a political concept that seeks to bring about a post-capitalist world through violence, two ultra-right activists were arrested by the intelligence services this week.


Their objective is to accelerate the march of history and precipitate racial war.

This is the principle of accelerationism, in which bathed two people arrested by the DGSI this week, after having called for "

violent actions

" and exchanged to carry out "

arms purchases

".

The two men are the subject of a preliminary investigation opened by the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT).

In September, the intelligence services had already taken into custody members of a similar neo-Nazi group, suspected of preparing an attack, in particular against the Minister of Health.

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Accelerationism first appeared to the left of the left, claimed in a manifesto by two London academics published in 2013. After the cultural defeat of the left in the face of neoliberalism, “

their idea is to overtake capitalism on its own ground , by pushing to the maximum the logic of emancipatory technological progress and of the market to gain access as quickly as possible to a post-capitalist world,

”explains Nathanaël Wallenhorst, HDR lecturer and doctor in political science at the Catholic University of the West. “

They are quickly criticized for their authoritarian conception of politics; the end justifies the means, they advocate, it is the limit of their reasoning

», Judges the researcher.

Indeed, violence can thus become a legitimate means of political action.

"A rhetoric of action"

The idea of ​​accelerating the advent of a new order through violence was taken up a few years later in the United States by neo-Nazi groups.

"

When there is an innovation in the ultra-left, it is always a source of inspiration in the radical extreme right

", analyzes the historian and specialist of the extreme right Nicolas Lebourg.

The term accelerationism is used, more like "

a rhetoric of action, of the passage to the act

", rather than an ideological project, explains Jean-Yves Camus, director of the Observatory of political radicalities of the Foundation. Jean Jaurès.

"

There is this idea of ​​generating evil from the moment when it can give birth to a good, or it can trigger an immune reaction

", continues Jean-Yves Camus.

This was the motivation of terrorist Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March 2019. “

His motivation was to lead in return to jihadist attacks which would in turn provoke a rise in hostility. with regard to Muslims and so on until the decomposition of the system or the seizure of power

”.

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From 2015, the concept of accelerationism permeated the

Atomwassen Division

, groups in the United States that mix occultism and neo-Nazism.

"

'Atom' refers to both destructive power and acceleration

", analyzes Jean-Yves Camus.

These groups draw their inspiration from the doctrines of American neo-Nazi James Manson.

In his book

Siege,

which serves as a reference for them, he explains that in order to put an end to the multiracial society supposedly controlled by the Jews, one must contribute to "

friction, chaos and anarchy

", "

random shootings

" to “

Chosen and consecutive assassinations… in different parts of the country

”.

France half spared

"

For the accelerationists, the use of unbridled violence must lead to greater violence in reaction, allowing Western societies to go from" racial chaos "to" racial war

", explains Nicolas Lebourg. After the founders and the

Atomwaffen Division were detained

, the neo-Nazi group had some resonance. "

This current has been exported to Canada, Great Britain or Australia

", reports Jean-Yves Camus.

In France, it remains very much in the minority. "

This typically American reference to Nazism and Satanism is a subculture of white supremacism which has more difficulty in taking in a society that is too little religious and dechristianized like ours

", explains the researcher. The French have taken over the label of accelerationism and the

Atomwaffen Division

, but they act alone or in small cells, in private correspondence on Telegram. In an article detailing the content of the Telegram channel "Until Hell", whose administrator was arrested by the DGSI,

Marianne also

specifies that it, "

rather compartmentalized

", "

urged his readers to become 'lone wolves' before joining 'a pack' when the time comes

”.

For example, groups like this broadcast tutorials on how to make weapons, explosives and ammunition.

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However, "this

movement does not exceed a few dozen individuals

", observes Jean-Yves Camus.

For the researcher, if there is certainly an increase in anti-terrorism procedures targeting ultra-right activists, with generally an embryonic stage of advancement of violent projects, Islamic terrorism remains the first danger.

Source: lefigaro

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