"While many on the left responded to the rapid ebbing of the events of May with calls to Maoist or Leninist discipline, others argued the need to pursue the quasi-anarchist path of liberation from all structures of discipline – left or right... In particular they reply to Marx’s contention that ‘[t]he real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself’, by arguing that we must crash through this barrier by turning capitalism against itself. They are an exotic variant of la politique du pire: if capitalism generates its own forces of dissolution then the necessity is to radicalise capitalism itself: the worse the better. We can call this tendency accelerationism... These texts trace their own pattern of acceleration and outbidding as they try to exceed each other and a deterritorialising capitalism. Collectively they embody a shared desire to exacerbate capitalism to the point of collapse, aiming to out-radicalise Marx and Engels’s argument that capitalism liberates us from ‘feudal, patriarchal, and idyllic relations’ by drowning these relations ‘in the icy water of egotistical calculation’."