Karl Marx, in his preface to Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1857-8) and in Capital, Vol. I (1876), intones what is likely the first utterance of an accelerationist praxis and, thus, the possibility of creating a new world by quickening the demise of the system which binds us:
"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or -- this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms -- with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution." — Karl Marx, Preface to Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1857-8), p. 2
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"The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated." —Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), Chapter 32, p. 837
These statements are more than Marx's untimely predictions of the future we now inhabit; they are a description of the very situation we find ourselves in here on SteemIt.
Many of us have been driven to seeking out additional means of making money. We have besn driven out of everywhere else. Our sole resting place is the internet, some perceptive network which grants us solace from these relations of production (of getting up to go to work every day at a dead-end job, of being unable to explore interests and hobbies, of seeing the same friends everyday, of paying for healthcare you cant use, etc).
The process has gone on long enough. We can feel the membrane, the integument, which has kept us in this bondage, and we can feel the pressure as we attempt to transgress its limits.
SteemIt has the potential, as with other cryptocurrencies, to radically alter the relations which produce and reproduce our world.
When the market is torn asunder, what remains?