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by d883kd8 3313 days ago
They are like Accelerationists, bringing about the end of an undesirable system by increasing the damage it causes until it cannot be ignored.
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Drifting rather off-topic here, but why credit the "heighten the contradictions" strategy to a weird modern academic cult? Rebranding Leninist ideas about sabotage, I guess, makes it seem fresh to the rubes. Never mind that attempting to time social and political systems doesn't work much better than timing the market, and if you get it wrong, you're just being a horrible person. (Assuming your underlying goals are good ones to begin with.)
I've seen the concept mentioned in writing from the 1800s, and you can probably see it even further back. I don't know if it's that modern ;)
Because it's a cute one word term?